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WHITE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus leucurus. T. cvpreo-viridis, remigibus fuscis t collo 

 anfice lunula subrubra, cauda cequali alba. 



Coppery-green Humming- Bird, with brown quill-feathers, a red- 

 dish crescent in front of the neck, and white even tail. 



Trochilus leucurus. T. curvirostHs viridi-aureus, rcctricibus cequa- 

 libus albiSy collari rubro. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



White-tailed Humming-Bird. Edw. pi. 256. Lath. syn. 



Le Collier rouge. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 600. /. 4. 



DESCRIBED by Edwards : length four inches and 

 a half : bill long, slender, bowed downwards, of a 

 black colour towards the point, and lighter at the 

 base: all the head, neck behind, back, smaller 

 wing-coverts, and breast of a greenish-brown co- 

 lour, changeable, according to the direction of the 

 light, into copper or gold-colour : across the breast 

 a horizontal light reddish bar: belly and under 

 tail-coverts dull whitish : wings dark purplish : the 

 two middle tail-feathers coppery green, the re- 

 maining eight white, the two exterior ones on 

 each side being clouded with dusky towards the 

 tip: legs and feet whitish. Native of Surinam. 



