NATTERER'S HUMMING-BIRD. ]j5 



breast and belly. The forehead is clothed with bright 

 green and scaly feathers, and is separated from the 

 golden but duller green of the hind head and upper 

 parts by a bandelet of deep velvety black, which runs 

 over -the head in a line with and from eye to eye. 

 The throat and front of the neck is shining green, and 

 the feathers, lengthened and narrow, form a beautiful 

 gorget displayed upon the dark indigo of the breast. 

 The vent and under tail-coverts are dirty white. The 

 tail is equal at the end, and, like those of this form, 

 has the feathers broad and expanded ; it is of a me- 

 tallic green colour of an equal brilliancy above and 

 beneath. 



Lesson has changed Natterer's name to that of the 

 discoverer himself; but, independent of priority, when 

 not entirely inappropriate it cannot be a compliment 

 to change the name given by the discoverer, even 

 when substituted by his own ; we have tnereibre 

 retained it. 



