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the tail. Native of Cayenne. In his Appendix 

 Monsr. Viellot appears to think this bird either a 

 young or a female of some other species hitherto, 

 undetermined. 



viellot's humming-bikd. 



Trochilus Vielloti. T, olivaceo-nigricafis aureo-nitcns, suhtus aU 



bicanSf remigibus fuscO'Violaceis, 

 Blackish-olive Humming-Bird, with golden gloss, beneath whitish, 



with violet-brown quill-feathers. 

 L'Oiseau-moiiche a ventre gris. Viell.pL53» 

 L'Oiseau-mouche de St. Domingue. Bi iss, ois, 3. f. yS.f. 8. 

 Trochilus niger ? ? T, rectirostris rectricibus subwqmlibus corpore 



nigro subtus aurato, crisso albo, tibiis ptniiatis. Lin, Syst, Nat, 



Lath, ind. orn. 

 Black Huraraing-Bird. Lath, syn. 



This, which is one of the smallest of the genus, 

 is described and figured by Monsr. Viellot, under 

 the name of L'Oiseau-Mouche a mntre gris, and is 

 a species perfectly distinct from some others with 

 which it has been confounded. Its total length is 

 two inches and three lines, and its colour on the 

 upper parts green-brown with a coppery lustre : 

 the quill-feathers of the wings are violet-brown, 

 and the tail of the same colour, except the two 

 middle feathers, which, as in most others of the 

 genus, are of the colour of the back ; the whole 

 under parts, from the chin to the vent, are greyish 

 white, and the legs are covered with grey plumes. 

 The female differs from the male in being rather 

 snialler, of a dull grey beneath, and in having all 



