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One, supposed to be the male, was in general glossy bluish black, 

 instead of coppery gilded colour ; but answering in other respects ; 

 and in the collection of Mr. Leadbeater is a specimen of what ap- 

 pears to be a young bird. In this the gilded green has a brownish 

 mixture ; the same white spot at the back of the neck ; tail white, 

 the ends of all but the outmost feather, more or less steel black ; 

 throat and breast waved with dusky ; lower belly and vent dull white. 



50— SPOTTED-NECKED HUMMING- BIRD. 



Trochilus fimbriatus, Ind. Orn. i. 312. Gm. Lini i. 493. 

 Mellisuga Cayanensis gutture nsevio, Bris. iii. 706. t. 36. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 33. 

 Oiseau-mouche a gorge tachetee, Bitf. vi. 31. PL enl. 276. 2. Oh. dor. i. 53. pi. 22. 

 Spotted-necked Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 772. 



LENGTH near four inches. Bill eleven lines, black, but the 

 lower mandible is whitish, for the greater part of the length ; 

 plumage in general green gold, glossed with copper ; feathers of 

 the breast fringed with white; belly, under tail coverts, and thighs 

 grey ; all the tail feathers steel black, but the two middle ones have 

 a copper gloss, and the rest tipped with grey ; legs black. 



Said in the Ois. dor. to be either the young or female of the last. 



A. — Size of the other. Plumage above green-gold, glossed with 

 copper ; throat and fore part of the neck green-gold, the feathers 

 margined with grey ; breast, belly, vent, and under tail coverts 

 white ; vent downy ; quills blue black ; tail greenish black, not 

 tipped with white. 



One of these was in the Museum of Sir A. Lever ; there is also 

 a corresponding one in my own collection. 



