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28.— BRIGHT-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Vert dore a Queue blanche et verte, Ois. dor. i. 83. pi. 41. 

 Bright-throated Humming-Bird, Shatv's Zool. viii. 287. 



LENGTH near four inches and a half. Bill black above, white 

 beneath ; over the eye a white line ; top of the head greenish brown ; 

 the rest of the upper parts glossy green ; throat and breast gilded 

 yellow green ; upper part of the belly green gold, lower glossy bril- 

 liant grey green ; under tail coverts white at the base, and gilt at 

 the tips ; tail rounded at the end ; mixed green and white on the 

 margins, but the two middle feathers wholly green ; legs yellowish. 



29.— BLACK-STREAKED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill one inch and a quarter 

 long, from the gape, black ; plumage above, wings, and tail coverts 

 fine glossy green ; sides of the breast, belly, and under wing coverts 

 the same ; under parts from the chin to vent dusky white; under tail 

 coverts pale ash, fringed with white ; down the middle, from the 

 chin to vent, a narrow streak of black, broadest on the throat, and 

 in some lights appears tinged with green, the feathers being margined 

 at the tips with that colour; tail a trifle rounded, one inch long,, the 

 two middle feathers deep glossy green throughout, all the others fine 

 chestnut purple, varying with different lights, for three-fourths of 

 the length, the rest steel black, more or less tipped with white, most 

 so on the outmost feather; legs black. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. I have observed another 

 specimen, not unlike the above, with the throat and fore part of the 

 neck white ; down the middle a black stripe from chin to the breast 

 only. 



