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Tr. Saphyrmics. Sh. 

 Vieil. 35, 5^. 



Above, brilliant gold-green; front of neck and 

 breast, rich sapphire, with violet reflexions. 



Tr. Squamosus. Tem. 

 Col. 203. 



Feathers on throat and neck black, in the middle, 

 and white on the edges and end. Brazil, 



Tr. Albicollis. Id. Col. 203. 



Throat, part of front, neck, middle of belly, and 

 lower tail-coverts, snow-white. Brazil. 



Among the Hoopoes (Upupa. Lin.) we place 

 at first,* 



The Craves. (Fregillus.I Cuv.) 



Whose nostrils are covered by feathers directed for- 

 wards, which has occasioned them to be united, by 

 many authors, with the crows, to which, in manners, 

 they present some resemblance j their bill is a little 

 longer than the head. 



* There have also been described, — 

 Orthor. AmazUia. Less, and Garn. Voy. de la Coq. 31. 

 Colibri Crispus. Spix. t. 81. f. 1. 

 Colibri Leucopygus, Spix. t. 81. f. 3. 

 Colibri Albogularis. Spix. t. 82. f. 1. 

 Colibri Helios. Spix. t. 82. f. 2. 



f M. Vi^eillot has changed this name ipto Coracias, which in Linnaeus 

 is applied to the Rollers. 



