HUMMING-BIRD. 313 



33— BLACK-BELLIED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus holosericeus, Intl. Orn. i. 305. Lin. i. 191. Gm. Lin. i. 491. Borownk. ii. 



158. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 71. 

 Mellivora Mexicana, Gerin. iv. t. 404. 



Polytmus Mexicanus, Bris. iii. 676. t. 35. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 22. 

 Avis auricoma Mexicana, Seba, i. t. 99. 4 ? Jl7m'm, 107. iii. 3. Id. 108. 18. 

 Colibri vert et noir, Buf. vi. 53. Ois. dor. i. 19. pi. 6. 

 Black-bellied Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 754. Edw. pi. 36. Bancr. Guian. 169. 



SWs Zool. viii. 307. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill one inch or more ; head, 

 neck, back, and wing coverts, gilded green ; breast, belly, sides, and 

 thighs, shining black, with a reddish tinge ; across the breast a band 

 of blue ; on the lower belly another of white, but smaller ; tail even 

 at the end, deep black, with a polished steel gloss ; legs black. 



Edwards has figured another in the same plate, which he sup- 

 posed to be the female, and differed only in wanting the white mark 

 on the belly, but there is a spot of white on each side of it. 



Inhabits Mexico and Guiana. 



A. — Colibri a ventre noir, Ois. dor. i. Sup. 119. pi. 65. 



Length three inches and three quarters. Bill one inch, black ; 

 head, and upper parts of the body gilded green ; neck, breast, and 

 belly, purplish black ; lower belly white ; wings and tail black. 



This is thought to be the female of some species unknown, but 

 appears to have some relation to the Black-bellied one. 



B. — In Mr. Bullock's Museum is a fine specimen, which may be 

 referred to the above ; length four inches and a half. Bill curved, 



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