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’The Black-be LL y’d Green Huming Bird. 
Birds are figurM of their natural Size; they are of the larger Sort of 
Hummg Birds \ the Bills in both are long, flender, and a little bent downward, 
not very fharp-pointed, of a black Colour ; the Head, Neck, Back, and lefler Coverts 
of the Wings, in the upper Bird, are of a bluilh Green-colour; the fcapular Feathers, 
or thofe between the Back and Wings, have fomething of Red mixed with the Green ; 
the Breaft and Covert-feathers of the Tail, both above and beneath, are Blue ; the 
middle of the Belly is Black, which part is cover’d by the Wing in the Pofture it is 
drawn ; behind the black Part of the Belly is a white Mark acrofs the Vent; the 
Quill-feathers, and the Row of Coverts next above them, are of a dirty purplifti Co- 
lour in both Birds, as they are in moftof this Kind ; the Tails in both Birds are Black 
above, and Blue beneath; the Legs and Feet alfo in both are Black. 
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'^f^EIE fecond Bird, which I believe to be the Hen of the above defcrib’d, differs 
I from that in the Colour of the Green, on the Head, Neck, and Coveits of the 
Wing, which are of a much yellower Green; the Top of the Head, upper Part of the 
Neck and Back, being intermixed with a red Colour ; it wants the white Bar acrofs the 
lowxr Belly or Vent; in all other Particulars the above Defeription will anfwer to this. 
The firft Bird was lent me hy James Theobald, Efq; the other by Taylor White, Efq; 
From what particular Part they came, I could not be informed; but we know that 
America only produces thele Birds, and chiefly between the Tropicks, they being rarely 
met with far without the Tropicks, and not at all in Winter. Near the Equinodial 
they continue all the Year, as I have been informed. 
T his Tly is Yellow, fpotted with Black; the Eyes are redilh; the Wings are 
tranfparent; the greater Wings a little thick toward their fetting on, and of a 
browner Colour, which parts are diflinguifhed by crofs Hatching between the Veins 
.ofthe Wings; there are two dark Spots in the Ends of each of the larger Wings; tli^ 
lefler Wings are of an equal Clearnefs without Spots. 
Tills Hy came from Amhoma, and was lent me by Mr. Dandridge, I need not^men- 
tion the Size of the Infeds here figur’d, becaufe they will all be juft of the* natural Size. 
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