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TROCHILIDiE. 



persed like scales : vent golden-green, with two tufts 

 of downy white feathers round the thighs : tail even, 

 the feathers behind truncately rounded, of a rufous 

 cinnamon colour, tipped with a purple-black bar ; 

 the middle feathers darkest, and glossed with green. 



GENUS CCLXIX.— GRYPUS, Spix. 



Rostrum trigonum, rectius- 

 culum, versus apicem late- 

 raliter serratum, compres- 

 sum, ad apicem aduncum: 

 mandibula inferior ad 

 apicem ascendens. 



Cauda latiuscula, oequalis, 

 non elongata. 



BeakixigoYLd\^ rather straight, 

 laterally serrate towards 

 the tip, compressed, hooked 

 at the tip : the hwer man- 

 dible ascending at the tip. 



Tail rather broad, even, not 

 elongated. 



Sp. J . Gr. ruficollis. Spiof, Avium Nova Spec. p. 79. pi. Ixxs. 

 /•3. 



Gr majusculus supra virescetite-cuneo relucens, subtus c'lnereo- 

 brunnescens; stria post oculari versus occiput albicante, alidque 

 iriferiore latiore Jusca; collo antico rufo; gula pectoreque nigra 

 striatis; caudd violaced-chalyhea. 



Grypus above glossy golden-green, beneath ashy-brown ; with a 

 whitish stripe behind the eyes towards the occiput, and another 

 below, and broader, of a brown colour ; the neck rufous in 

 front ; the throat and breast striped with black ; the tail of a 

 steel-coloured violet. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



Sp. 2. Gr? Vieilloti. 



Gr? suprd, viridi-aureus, alis cnuddque ohsc7ire violaceis; gula 

 lateribus violaceis, medio fusco-aureo punctato; pectore ven- 

 treque supremo brunneis ; ventre irifimo, tecfricilnisque cmidcs 

 inferioribus albis ; ro'^tro pedihusque nigris. 



