HUMMING-BIRD. 315 



So.— RUFOUS-BELLIEI> HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Brasiliensis, Ind. Orn. i. 308. 



— — — hirsutus, Gm. Lin. i. 490. 



Polj-tmus Brasiliensis, Bris. iii. 670. Id. 8vo. ii. 21. 



Guajnumbi minor rostro incurvo, Raii, 83. Will. 166. 4. Id. Engl. 234. 4. Marcgr. 



Bras. 197. 

 Colibri a ventre roussatre, Buf. vi. 63. 



a pieds vetus, Ois. dor. i. pi. 20. Id. Sup. 122. pi. 68. jeune. 



Rufous-bellied Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn.'ri. 760. Shaw's Zool. viii. 302. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill one inch and a half 

 long, under mandible yellow at the base, and black at the tip; upper 

 part of the body green gold, glossed with copper, beneath rufous 

 white; quills violet brown ; tail blackish, with a cast of green, and 

 tipped white ; legs covered with feathers to the toes, yellowish white ; 

 toes black. 



Inhabits Brazil. — The young bird has a dusky crown, the rest 

 of the upper parts of the plumage green gold ; from chin to vent 

 dull rufous; quills dusky; tail blue, fringed at the end with white; 

 legs downy, white. 



A. — Colibri a pieds vetus, Ois. dor. i. pi. 20. 2d fig. 



In this all the under parts are pale rufous yellow ; two-thirds of 

 the tail ferruginous, then black, with the tips white ; exterior feather 

 brown . 



B.— Trochilus Brasiliensis, Ind. Orn. i. 308. 23. |3. 

 Rufous-bellied Humming-bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 761. 21. A. 



Length three inches and a half. Bill one inch and a half long, 

 black, yellowish beneath ; plumage above green gold, beneath 

 rufous, towards the vent very pale ; from the base of the bill a 



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