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coverts dull brown ; greater wing coverts, quills, and tail brown ; 

 the two middle feathers not quite so long as the rest; legs black. 

 Inhabits Surinam. 



A.— Trochilus Ourissia, Lid. Om. i. 311. 35. /3. Gm. Lin. i. 494. 13. /3. 

 Gen. St/n. ii. 767- A. 



Length three inches and three quarters. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch, strait, dusky, base beneath white ; head, neck, and upper 

 parts of the body green ; on the chin a pale orange spot ; breast and 

 belly blue ; quills and tail dusky ; legs black. 



From the collection of the late Duchess Dowager of Portland. 

 This is not improbably a young bird, and we are in doubt if not 

 belonging to the following, rather than to the one last described. 



52— SAPPHIRE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Sapphirinus, Ind. Om. i. 313. Gm. Lin.\. i. 496. 



Le Sapphir, Buf. vi p. 26. Ois. dor. i. 73. pi. 35. Id. 105. pi. 57. 



Sapphire Humming-Bird, Gen. St/n. ii. 775. Shaw's Zool. viii. 324. 



ABOUT four inches long. Bill three quarters of an inch, white, 

 with the tip black ; fore part of the neck and breast rich sapphirine 

 blue, with a violet gloss; body in general deep green gold ; throat 

 rufous ; lower belly white ; under tail coverts rufous, the upper 

 bright gilded brown ; tail gilded rufous, bordered with brown, the 

 two middle feathers first rufous, then dusky, with the tips inclining 

 to ash-colour ; wings brown ; legs black. 



M. Audibert says, that a complete male has the head, neck, 

 throat, and breast glossy blue, changing to violet and brown in 

 different lights ; nape, hind neck, and rump gilded copper ; on the 

 lower part of the breast, belly, and under tail coverts a polished gloss ; 



