ORDER PASSERES. 



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White-bellied Humming Bird. (Tr. Mellivorus.) 

 Enl. 640. Edw. 35. Vieil. 23, 24. 



Head, throat, and neck, blue, glossed, with goldback ; 

 scapulars, and tail-feathers, green-gold. Four inches. 



Sapphire Humming Bird {Tr. Smaragdo-Saphy- 

 rinus.) Vieil. 36, 40. 



Body, green-gold ; throat, rufous ; lower belly, white. 

 Four inches. 



Red-throated Humming Bird. {Tr. Coluhris.) 

 Edw. 38. Catesb. Q5. Vieil. 31, 32, and 33. 



Green-gold above ; grey beneath ; throat, ruby-colour. 

 About three inches. 



Tobago Humming Bird. {Tr. Maugeanus.) Vieil. 

 37, 38. 



Gilded-green above; brighter underneath; lower 

 belly, white. About three inches. 



Tr. Amethystinus 

 Gm. Enl. 672. 



Throat and front of neck, brilliant amethyst, chang- 

 ing into purpled brown. Cayenne. 



Tr. Furcatus. Vieil. 60. 



Crown of head, blue ; plumage in general, green ; tail- 

 feathers, stiff, forming a fork. 



