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WHITE-EARED HUMMING-BIRD. 

 , Trochilus leucotis VIEILLOT. 

 PLATE XXIX. 



Trochilus leucotis, Vieillot Nouvelle Dictionnaire 



Naturelle Oiseau-mouche Arsenne, Ornismya Arsennii, 



Lesson, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-mvuches, pi. ix. 

 p. 60. 



VIEILLOT has described this species, in the New 

 Dictionary of Natural History, under the title of 

 " Oiseau-mouche a oreilles blanches/' (Trochilus leu- 

 cotis ;) while Lesson has figured, and dedicated it, in 

 his Synopsis, to M. Arsenne, a rising French artist. 

 The latter name we have rejected, for obvious reasons. 



The head is of a brownish violet colour, which is 

 insensibly shaded into the golden green which covers 

 the whole upper parts, and even the quills. A tinge 

 of azure blue shines upon the forehead, and is still 

 more brilliant en the cheeks and throat, and a gorget 

 of the clearest verdigris green covers the breast. A 

 spot of pure white arises behind each eye, and forms 

 a line of that colour above the auricular feathers ; 

 whence its name. The belly and flanks are grayish 

 green ; the vent and under tail-coverts pure white ; 



