314 HUMMING-^Bmi>. 



black, and one inch long; head, neck, body above, and wing- 

 coverts, fine gilded green ; on the breast a large glossy blue patch ; 

 belly black, in some lights with a dark green gloss; vent white; 

 under tail coverts long, deep glossy green, with blue ends; quills 

 dusky ; tail rounded, the feathers remarkably broad, and roundish 

 at the ends ; the two middle ones sensibly hollowed out at the tips ; 

 legs black. 



34— WAVE-BREASTED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill nearly one inch, black, 

 the upper mandible curved at the tip ; plumage above green gold, 

 beneath mixed white and glossy green in waves; middle of the belly 

 white ; under tail coverts purplish steel-colour, with white tips ; the 

 tail even at the end, the two middle feathers glossy green, and 

 broader than in most of the Genus, the rest purplish steel black ; the 

 exterior from the base to the middle white on the outer web, the end 

 also white, continuing as a fringe wholly round the tip ; ends of the 

 feathers square or very little pointed ; quills dusky purple ; legs 

 dark, covered with down. 



In the Museum of Mr. Bullock ; it appears in imperfect feather, 

 and has the size, shape of bill, and colour of the upper parts of the 

 plumage, not unlike the Black-bellied Species, of which it may be 

 probably the female, if not the young bird. 



