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PURPLE* TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trocliilus porphyruros. T. fuscus, jugnlo aterrimo holosericOy 

 fascia utrinque coUari caudaque purpureis. Vivar. Nat. g. 

 t. 333. 



Brown Humming-Bird, with velvet-black throat, and purple 



neck-stripes and tail. Nat. Misc» voL g. pi. 333. 

 Mango Humming-Bird, var. A. Lat/i. syn, 



This^ which was, I believe, first described as a 

 distinct species by myself, under the name of 

 TrocMlus porphyrurus^ has sometimes been con- 

 sidered as a variety of the immediately preceding, 

 from which it totally differs in the cast of its 

 colours; the crown of the head being deep green- 

 ish grey, the remainder of the upper parts brown, 

 and the tail fine purple, each feather blackish near 

 the end, but tipped with white : the two middle 

 feathers plain black: from the bill through the 

 eyes, along each side of the neck, passes a broad 

 brilliant purple band, while from the lower man- 

 dible down the throat and breast, as in the former 

 species, passes a deep or velvet-black stripe : the 

 belly is dusky, and on each side the lower part is a 

 patch or spot of white. Native of South America 

 and the West-Indian islands. 



