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Length nearly five inches. Bill one inch and a half long, black ; 

 upper parts of the body, wing coverts, and two middle tail feathers, 

 gilded green ; beneath from chin to vent pale grey, or ash-colour ; 

 chin and throat glowing ruby-colour, in some lights appearing black, 

 and the feathers sitting close ; under tail coverts dark glossy green, 

 with white ends ; quills dusky ; the two middle tail feathers glossy 

 green, the others green from the base half way, then steely purplish 

 black, and the three outmost marked with a white spot at the tip, 

 deepest on the exterior feather ; over the thighs and vent white : 

 legs black. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. It is probably a female to 

 the two others above mentioned. 



A. — I observe one, somewhat similar, with as long a bill, in 

 Mr. Bullock's Museum ; in this the tail is very cuneiform, blackish 

 at the end, with white tips ; and besides this, the two middle 

 feathers extend beyond the others one inch and a quarter, and for 

 this length wholly white. Whether this strictly belongs to the 

 above, or any other species, we are unable to determine. 



81 —BRONZE-CROWNED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH of the last. Bill one inch and a half, strait, black ; 

 crown of the head and throat gilded red bronze ; plumage in general 

 green gold ; inner part of the two outer tail feathers marked with a 

 round white spot ; vent white ; under tail coverts grey and white mixed. 



The female is green gold, without any red on the head and throat, 

 beneath ash-colour ; tips of all the tail feathers white ; throat mixed 

 dusky and white, and a whitish streak on each side of it. 



One, in the collection of Mr. Leadbeater, supposed to be a young 



male, was without the gilded crown. 



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