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GREEN-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus gutturalis. T. viridi-aureiis, giila smaragdina utrinque 



albo-rufescente, pectore strigaque ahdominali nigris. 

 Green-gold Hummmg-Bird, with emerald throat whitish-rufous 



on each side, black breast, and black abdominal stripe. 

 Trochilus gularis*. T, curvirostris mridi- aureus, collo suhtus 



smaragdino laterihus rufo, ahdomine albOj pectoris macula nigra. 



Lath. ind. orn. 

 Trochilus maculatus. Lin. Gmel. 



Le Colibri a cravate verte. Buff. ois. Viell. pi. 10. PL EnL 671. 



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Green-throated Humming-Bird. Lath, syn. 



Greatly allied to the Black-breasted Hum- 

 ming-Bird in habit, and even in distribution of 

 colours, and may, according to Audebert, be con- 

 sidered as a variety of that bird, which however 

 it considerably exceeds in magnitude; Monsr. 

 Audebert's figure representing it at least five 

 inches in length, while the preceding is not more 

 than about four inches and a quarter at fullest 

 extent. The upper parts, in the present species^ 

 are dark green- gold, with a somewhat irregular 

 white band slightly tinged with rufous on each 

 side the whole length of the neck, proceeding 

 from the base of the lower mandible : the throat 

 is bright or emerald gold-green ; the wings violet- 

 black; the breast velvet-black, narrowing into a 



* This title might cause confusion, Mr. Latham having another 

 species of the same name. I have therefore changed it to giit^ 

 tmralis. 



