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WHITE-COLLARED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus mellivoms~-LixyiEvs. 



PLATE XXX. 



Trochilus mellivorus, Linnceus, Sy sterna Nature White-bellied 

 Humming-bird, Edwards^s Birds, pi. xxxv. ; Latham's Gene- 

 ral History of Birds, vol.iv. p. 324 La Jacobine, Buffon^ 

 Planches Enluminees, DCXL. ; Lesson Histoire Naturelle 

 des Oiseaux-mouches, pis. xxi. and xxii. p. 90. 



THIS distinctly marked species may be met with 

 in almost every collection, and is one of the oldest 

 known. The changes from the young to the adult 

 plumage are considerable, which has occasioned its 

 description under more than one name. The plumage 

 of the adult male is a very deep and fine blue on the 

 crown, cheeks, throat, and upper part of the breast ; 

 the back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and shoulders, 

 golden green, marked on the back of the neck with 

 a crescent-shaped spot of the purest white ; the belly 

 and vent pure white; the tail, of very broad feathers, 

 white, each tipped with black, and narrowly lined 

 with the same colour on the outer margins. 



Lesson has figured the female as golden green above, 

 including the centre tail feathers, and basal half of tho 



