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portion of the fore part of the neck are clothed with 

 feathers, having the middle black, and the edges and 

 tips white, giving the appearance of scales : a broad 

 band of pure white arises from the angle of the 

 beak and reaches to the ears : another small spot of 

 white is placed behind the eyes : a broad white band 

 passes through the middle of the breast, and of the 

 abdomen, and reaches to the vent, which is white : 

 the tail-coverts are white at their edges, and ashy- 

 green in the middle : the tail and the wings are 

 dusky metallic-violet : the two lateral tail-feathers 

 have a small white spot below : the rest of the 

 plumage is of a deep metallic-green. The female 

 differs in being less brilliant in colour, and the 

 shades less defined. 



So. 11. Me. mesoleuca. 



Me. corpore supra infraqite tectridbusqiie alarum viridibus ; Jronte 

 sapphirino ; strigd itifra oculos lineaque longttudinalis abdo- 

 minis albis ; guld plagd puniced, aurea et inirpurea reflexa. 



Houey-bird with the boily above and beneath and the wing-coverts 

 green; the forehead sapphire; a stripe beneath the eyes, and a 

 longitudinal abdominal line, white ; the throat with a crimson 

 spot varying M'ith gold and purple. 



Trochilus mesoleucos. Temm. PI. Col. 317.y^ 1, 2. male; 3. fe- 

 male. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length about four inches and 

 a half: the male has the throat adorned with a 

 bilobed carmine plate, glossed with gold and purple : 

 the feathers on its sides are long and distinct, and 

 separated from the rest, forming two recurved tufts: 

 the forehead to the eyes is of a sapphire-green : a 



