250 TROCHILID.f:. 



ME.Jacie giilague sapphirhiis; vertice lined transversa sericco- 

 nigrd; corpore supra hypochondriUque aureo-viridihns ; pectore 

 ventreque cceruleis; crisso tectricibiisque caiidd injerioribiis 

 albis. 



Honey-bird with the face and throat sappliire colour; the crown 

 with a transverse silken black line ; the body above and flanks 

 golden-green ; the breast and belly blue ; the vent and under 

 tail-coverts white, 



Trochilus scutatus. Natt. Temm. PL Col. 299. y. 3. 



Inhabits Brazil. The face and throat are of a 

 rich sapphire-colour, which is prolonged on the fore 

 part of the male into a lance-shaped point : on the 

 middle of the head, passing from one eye to the 

 other, is a velvety-black line, which borders the 

 sapphirine hue on the face : the sides of the neck are 

 adorned with a large tuft of long feathers of a brilliant 

 royal-blue : the breast and the belly are also of this 

 colour ; on each side of the former is a large spot of 

 isabella-yellow, more or less hidden by the long 

 feathers and the ruff on the forepart of the neck : all 

 the upper parts of the plumage, the flanks, and the 

 lesser wing-coverts, are golden-green : the tail-fea- 

 thers on both sides are of a very brilliant metallic- 

 green : the wings are brown, with a very delicate 

 violet gloss : the abdomen and the under tail-coverts 

 are white. 



3. Capite cristato; pennis colli hand elongatis. 



3. Head crested ; the feathers of the neck not lengthened. 



Sp. 28. Me. cristata. 



Trochilus cristatus, Shcnv, v. viii. p. 352. pi. 44. 



Sp. 29. Me. pileata. 



Trochilus pileatus. Shaxu, v. viii. p. 354. 



