118 WHITE-STRIPED HUMMING-BIRD. 



tail is very ample and slightly forked ; it has a brown- 

 ish green lustre, and the two outer feathers are mark- 

 ed with a round white spot at the tips. 



The female has nearly the same plumage as the 

 male, except on the throat ; the part occupied by the 

 beautiful patch is a greyish-white, and the base of 

 the feathers is marked with a darker tint ; from this 

 the middle line of white, equally conspicuous as in 

 the other sex, descends to the tail. 



In the young the tints are generally duller, and a 

 few straggling crimson feathers are generally observ- 

 able on the throats of the males. The species is a 

 native of Brazil. 



Another bird, allied in form and colouring to this, 

 and figured by Temminck, is the 



SCALY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus squamosus TEMMINCK. 



Oiseau-mouche ecailld, Trochilus squamosus, Temminck, 



Planches Coloriees, pi. 205 Oiseau-mouche, Temminck. 



Ornismya Temminckii, Lesson, Histoire Naturelle des 

 Oisseaux-moucheS) pi. x-x. Male. 



To this bird* Lesson has given the name of M. 

 Temminck, its first describer, but as usual we have 

 retained the name which that gentleman originally 

 gave. It has exactly the same form with the last 

 we have described, and the markings are all so simi- 



