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HUMMING-BIRD. 



16.— BLACK-BREASTED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus pectoralis, Ind. Orn. i. 306. 



gramineus, Gm.Lin.i. 488. Vieill. Am. ii. 73. 



Hausse-col vert, Buf.v\. 58. Ois. dor. i. 23. pi. 9. 



Black-breasted Humming-Bird, Gen.Syn.n. 756. Shaw's Zool. viii. 298. 



LENGTH about six inches. Bill sixteen lines ; fore part and 

 sides of the neck, and lower part of the throat, emerald green ; chin, 

 under the bill, bronzed ; breast velvet black, with an obscure tinge 

 of blue; upper parts of the body and sides green gold ; the belly 

 white;* tail purplish blue, with a steely brown gloss, and does not 

 reach beyond the end of the wings when closed. 



The female has the same distribution of colours, except that the 

 green on the fore part of the neck is divided by two white dashes, 

 and the black on the breast neither so broad nor so dark-coloured. 



A. — Le Plastron violet, Ois. dor. i. 124. pi. 70. 



Le Bec-fleurs bleu en dessous, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 296 ? 



Mango Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. Sup. 135. 



In this the upper parts of the body are brownish green ; throat 

 and fore part of the neck green ; the breast and belly violet ; and 

 the vent white. 



In the collection of General Davies. 



B. — Length five inches. Bill black ; all above the plumage is 

 fine gilded green, beneath the same, but deeper; feathers of the 

 breast blue at the ends, the very tips only being glossy green ; belly 

 the colour of the back ; sides over the thighs, and vent white ; tail 

 even, one inch and a half long, the two outer feathers fine glossy 



* I do not see any white on the belly in the Ois. dores. 



