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der of the body, both above and below, gold-green, 

 but much paler or greyer beneath : wings pur- 

 plish brown ; tail the same, but the outsides of the 

 feathers gold-green, appearing of that colour when 

 closed: each of the two outside feathers tipped 

 with white : legs black. Native, probably, of 

 South-America, but the particular region un- 

 certain. 



The figures of this bird, both in Monsr. Viellot's 

 work and the Naturalist's Miscellany, were drawn 

 from a specimen in the collection of General 

 Davies, and which seems to have been the first 

 that ever made its appearance in this country. It 

 was brought from the West Indies. 



SAPPHIRE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus sapphirinus. T. lucido-sapphirinus, dorso subaurato, 



alisfuscis, abdomine nigro, cauda chalybea. 

 Bright sapphire-coloured Humming-Bird, with slightly-gilded 



back, brown wings, black abdomen, and steel-blue tail. 

 Trochilus sapphirinus. T. reciirostris mridi-auratus, subtus albus, 



collo inferiore violaceo-sapphirino, gula caudaque rufis. Lath. 



ind. orn. 



Le Saphir. Buff. ois. Viell. pi. 35. 57. 

 Sapphire Humming-Bird. Lath. syn. 



THIS species was first described by Buffon, who 

 informs us that it is rather above the middle size, 

 and has the fore-part of the neck and the breast of 

 a rich sapphire-blue, with violet glosses or re- 

 flexions: the throat red 5 the upper and under 



