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BROWN-CROWNED HUMMING-BIKD. 



Trochilus hypophaeus. T. rectirostris fusco-aurcus sttbtus albidus, 

 Tfrticefusco, media gulce striga longitudinali viridi-aurca. Lath, 

 ind. orn. 



Gilded-brown Humming-Bird, whitish beneath, with brown 

 crown and gold-green stripe down the middle of the throat. 



Trochilus striatus. Lin. GmcL 



Brown-crowned Humming-Bird. Lath. syn. 



THIS, according to Monsr. Viellot, in the work 

 entitled Dictionaire d'Histoire Naturelle, is no 

 other than an advancing young of the Trochilus 

 moschitus, at the period in which it begins to quit 

 its first colour. 



CARBUNCLE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Carbunculus. T. rectirostris sericeo-niger, vertice col' 



loque superius obscure rubris, collo inferiors pectoreque flammco* 



rubris, rectricibus rufo-aureis. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Trocliilus Carbunculus. T. niger, capite collo et pectore rubris, 



alisjuscis, cauda riifo-aurea. Lin. Gmel. 

 Glossy-black Humming-Bird, with dark-red crown and nape, 



fiery-red throat and breast, and gilded-rufous tail. 

 L'Escarboucle. Buff. ois. 

 Carbuncle Humming-Bird. Lath. syn. 



THIS species, if such it really be, and not a 

 variety of Trochilus moschitus, is thus described by 

 BufTon. " It is somewhat above the middle size : 



