324 HUMMING-BIRD. 



Inhabits South America. — A fine specimen in the collection of 

 Mr. Bullock. 



49— WHITE-BELLIED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus mellivorus, Lid. Orn. i. 310. Lin.\. 193. Gin. Lin. i. 499. Boroivsk. ii. 159. 

 Melli9uga Surinamensis torquata, Bris. iii. 713. Id. Svo. ii. 35. Gerin. iv. t. 406. 1. 

 Oiseau-mouche a Collier, dit la Jacobine, Bttf. vi. 34. PL enl. 640. 2. Ois. dor, i. 



55. pi. 23. 

 White-collared Humming-Bird, Shaw's Zool. viii. 320. 

 White-bellied Humming-Bird, Gen. St/n. ii. 765. Edw. pi. 38. 1. 



LENGTH four inches two lines. Bill ten lines long-, and black ; 

 head, throat, and neck blue, glossed with rich gold-colour; back, 

 rump, scapulars, upper tail, and lesser wing coverts, green gold, 

 glossed with copper ; at the back of the neck a large spot of white ; 

 breast, belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, white; greater wing 

 coverts and quills violet brown ; the tail a trifle forked, the two 

 middle feathers like the back, the others white, margined deeply at 

 the ends with black, which colour also slightly fringes the outer web, 

 except in the exterior feather, which is only margined at the end, 

 but deeper than the rest ; shins a little feathered ; toes black. 



Inhabits Surinam. — In a specimen in my possession the tail ap- 

 pears to have twelve feathers. Brisson says, there are ten in number, 

 and that the two middle ones were green gold and others white ; but 

 there are ten white feathers, besides the appearance of two green gold 

 ones in the middle, which on examination prove to be merely the 

 elongated coverts, and equal the rest in length ; the quills extend 

 beyond the end of the tail ; the bill is rather bent at the tip, and 

 more pointed than in many others of the Genus. One in Mr. Mc. 

 Leay's collection had the name Bimiti added to it, and had a small 

 rufous whisker on each jaw. 



