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all the upper parts of the body^ part of the sides of 

 the lower breast, and the chin : a white breast-plate 

 adorns the lower part of the neck and the upper 

 part of the breast : the middle of the belly is white : 

 the throat is of a lilac hue, with very glossy blue 

 reflections : the wing-feathers are very slight, and are 

 of a dark-violet : the beak is slender and black : the 

 legs are also black. 



Sp. 3. Tr, forficatus. Shaw, v. viii. ^. 279. pi. 38o — Jamaica. 



Sp. 4. Tr. Polytmus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 2Sl. 



Sp. 5. Tr. furcifer. Shaw, v. viii. p. 280. — Paraguay. 



B. Cauda subjiircatd. 



B. Tail slightly forked. 



Sp. 6. Tr. cyanurus. 



Tr. viridis, vertice splendido; guld rcctricib usque splendide cya" 



neis; remigihusjuscis. 

 Green Humming-bird with the crown splendid ; the throat and 



tail-feathers splendid blue j the quills brown. 

 Blue fork-tailed Humming-bird. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. iv. p. 299. 



" Length six inches : beak black, slightly bent : 

 plumage in general fine green, brilliant on the crown : 

 throat blue ^ quills brown : tail greatly forked, the 

 largest or exterior feather four inches in length, the 

 next two and a half; the inner scarcely an inch; the 

 ■outermost of the most brilliant fiery violet-blue, the 

 others much the same, but more or less inclining to 

 green towards the base." Latham. 



Sp. 7. Tr. furcatus. Shaw, v. viii. ^. 309. 



Sp. 8. Tr. forficatus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 310. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 9. Tr. elegans. Shaw, v. viii. p. 311. — St. Domingo. 



Sp. 10. Tr. torquatus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 313. — South America, 



