WHITE-TEMPLED HUMMING-BIRD. 349 



specific character is not very correctly descriptive, 

 since it states the bird to be black above, and 

 gilded beneath. 



WHITE-TEMPLED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus leucocrotaphos. T. aureo-viridis , subtus canus abdominc 

 albo, linea postoculari albida, re?nigibus cauduque chalybcis. 



Gold-green Humming-Bird, beneath grey with white belly, a 

 whitish stripe behind the eyes, and blue-black quill and tail- 

 feathers. 



Oiseau-mouche au tempes blanches. Atara Par. 



TOTAL length three inches and five twelfths : 

 from the angles of the eyes a whitish stripe of a 

 line in diameter passing towards the sides of the 

 hind-head, and beneath it another which is black- 

 ish: the two exterior tail-feathers tipped with a 

 whitish spot, which on the third feather nearly 

 vanishes : bill red for half its length, and black 

 for the remainder, and about eight lines long. 

 The most common species in Paraguay. Male 

 and female alike. 



