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of a beautiful shining metallic green, and the general colour of the breast 
and under portions of the body is green glossed with gold, with the excep- 
tion of the abdomen, where the green takes a coppery hue, from which the 
bird has received its popular name. The “ puffs” are of a snowy whiteness, 
and. look like refined swan’s-down. 
WHITE-BOOTED RACKET-TAIL.—(Spathura Underwoodii—male and female.) 
The female is very similar in colour, except that the hues of the throat are 
not possessed of so metallic a brilliancy, and, as has already been stated, the 
leg-tufts are comparatively small. 
We have in the Racket-tailed Humming-birds one of those singular forms 
which are so often found among these strange litue birds. 
