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SCALY BACKED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochi Ins Eurynomus LESSON. 



PLATE XXVIII. 



Le Colibri Eurynome, Trochilus Eurynomus, Lesson, Tro- 

 chilidees, PL xxxi. 



THIS species, undescribed before the work of M. 

 Lesson, is about six inches and a half in length, in- 

 cluding the long centre tail-feathers ; the head and 

 back of the neck is covered with brown scaly fea- 

 thers, fringed with chestnut ; the remaining upper 

 parts are of a fresh green, the plumes having the form 

 of scales, large and rounded, and fringed with a dull 

 reddish tinge; the upper part of the auriculars is black, 

 while an ochreous yellow line runs above, and one 

 of the same colour from the extremity of the gape ; 

 the throat has the feathers also in the form of scales 

 brown in the centre, and fringed with cchreous yel 

 low ; the neck, breast, belly, and flanks, are brownish 

 grey, dashed with reddish ; the lower tail-coverts are 

 of a reddish chestnut ; the tail is wedge-shaped, the 

 centre feathers much prolonged and narrow, green 

 for the length of the others, the projecting tips white ; 

 the other feathers are of a deep black at the base , 



