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PURPLE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus porphyrurus. T. fuscus, jugulo aterrimo holoscrica? 

 fascia utrinque collari caudaque purpurds. Vivar. Nat. 9. 



t. 333. 

 Brown Humming-Bird, with velvet-black throat, and purple 



neck-stripes and tail. Nat. Misc. vol. Q. pi. 333. 

 Mango Humming-Bird, var. A. Lath. syn. 



THIS, which was, I believe, first described as a 

 distinct species by myself, under the name of 

 Trochilus porphyrurus, has sometimes been con- 

 sidered as a variety of the immediately preceding, 

 from which it totally differs in the cast of its 

 colours ; the crown of the head being deep green- 

 ish grey, the remainder of the upper parts brown, 

 and the tail fine purple, each feather blackish near 

 the end, but tipped with white : the two middle 

 feathers plain black: from the bill through the 

 eyes, along each side of the neck, passes a broad 

 brilliant purple band, while from the lower man- 

 dible down the throat and breast, as in the former 

 species, passes a deep or velvet-black stripe : the 

 belly is dusky, and on each side the lower part is a 

 patch or spot of white. Native of South America 

 and the West-Indian islands. 



