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MAGNIFICENT HUMMING-BIRD 



Trochilus magnijicus. VIEILLOT. 



PLATE XIX. YOUNG MALE. 



Trochilus magnificus, Oiseau-mouche magnifique, Vieillot, Die. 

 tionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (1817 and 1818)-, Tern, 

 miners Planches Co/owes, ccxcix. fig. 2. Le Hausse-col 

 blanc, Ornismya strumaria, Lesson, Histoire Naturelle des 

 Oiseaux-mvuches, pi. xlii. and xliii. p. 143. 



WE have given plates of the young male and female 

 of this species, as being less known than the bird in 

 the adult state, and though presenting plumage of 

 less splendour, it is perhaps more chaste and pleasing. 

 It also ranges with the form represented by T. ornatus 

 and its allies, and the adult male has the neck adorned 

 with beautiful plumulets of snowy white, relieved by 

 a black or very dark olive-green band on the tip of 

 each. These tufts are also so far different, that the 

 feathers are much shorter and broader, and scarcely 

 present so stiff an appearance as those of its congeners, 

 while the ruff extends nearly round like a gorget in 

 front. In the young males neither the crest nor ruff 

 appears ; the crown of the head is of a dull yellowish 



