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GREY-BELLIED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Pegasus. T. aureo-viridis subtus griseus, remigibusfuscis, 



rectricibus atropurpureis basi virescentibus. 

 Gold-green Humming-Bird, grey beneath, with brown wings, 



and blackish-purple tail with greenish base. 

 Trochilus Pegasus. T. rectirostris, rectricibus basi virescentibus, 



corpore virescente-aureo subtus subgriseo, tibiis pennatis, Lin. 



Syst. Nat. Lath. ind. orn. 



Mellisuga Cayanensis ventre griseo. Briss. av. 3. t. 36. f. 4. 

 Grey-bellied Humming-Bird. Lath.syn. 

 Trochilus leucogaster. ? Lath. ind. orn. 

 Gold-throated Humming-Bird. ? Lath. syn. 



PERHAPS a young female of the Trochilus mos- 

 chitus. Length about three inches and two lines : 

 colour on the upper parts gold-green, with a 

 changeable coppery lustre, and on the under parts 

 grey-brown: wings violet-brown: tail-feathers parti- 

 coloured, the lower or base half being gold-green, 

 and the remaining half purplish black, the side- 

 feathers tipped with grey : legs feathered to the 

 toes. 



