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A.— Trochilus Tomineo, Lin. i. 191. Mas. Adolp. Fr. ii. p. 23. Gm. Lin. i. 492. 

 12. j3. Clus. Exot. 96. 



The body of this is said to be brown, the belly white, and with 

 very little gloss ; quills rusty brown ; tail feathers brown, towards 

 the base ferruginous, with the tips of all but the two middle ones 

 white ; it varies also in being grey beneath, instead of white. 



This probably is the young female. 



B.— Oiseau-mouche a gosier dore, Ois. dor. i. 89. pi. 46. 



Length three inches and a half. Bill eight lines, black ; plumage 

 above gilded green, most so on the wing coverts; sides of the head, 

 and all beneath dirty white, with some gilded reflections of red ; tail 

 tipped with white. 



From Surinam, and is probably a Variety of the female. 



C.—Rubis male jeune age, Ois. dor. i. p. 70. pi. 33. 



In this the chin is streaked with fine short black lines ; below 

 the ears a crimson patch or two ; tail as in the female Probably a 

 young male in the first feathers. 



Many more Varieties might be mentioned, but the above are no 

 doubt sufficient. 



Oiseau-mouche a cou mouchete, Ois. dor. pi. 33, seemed to M. 

 Audibert to be a young bird : it differed chiefly in the fore part of 

 the neck being spotted. 



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