BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
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This Humming-bird approaches very closely the next species, so 
closely, in fact, that were it not for the high authority which has 
separated them I should not be inclined to consider them distinct. 
Fig. Gould’s Mon. Trochil., Vol. V. 
SPORADINUS B RAC EI. Lawr. 
Brace’s Humming-bird. 
Male. — Crown and gorget of a glittering pale green ; back, 
upper tail-coverts, the two central and the next pair of tail-feathers, 
bronzed golden green; the other tail-feathers are purplish black, 
with their outer edges bronzed green ; quills, blackish purple ; breast 
and abdomen, dull bronzy green ; under tail-coverts, dark ash, bor- 
dered with white ; bill and feet, black. 
Length 3.37, wing 1.75, tail 1.12, bill .75. 
I include this as a species on the authority of Mr. George N. 
Lawrence, and have given his description of it in detail. In his 
report regarding it he says, “ The specimen is a mummy, and the 
outer two tail-feathers are just being renewed ; the length of these 
is important to determine its true generic position; but as it 
resembles Sporadinus ricordii in other respects, I place it pro- 
visionally in the same genus. If the outer tail-feathers were fully 
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