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tmXE AMETHYSTINE HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilus amethystoides. — Lesson. 
Le petit Amethyste : Ornismya amethystoides, Lesson, 
Trochilidies, pis. xxv. xxvi. and xxvii. 
Tms species Lesson thinks different from that re- 
presented on the following plate, and apparently with 
reason. It is scarcely more than two inches and a 
half in length : the upper parts are golden-green, 
with blue reflections ; the throat and fore part of the 
neck are of a rich reddish amethyst colour, whereas in 
the T. amethystinus it is of a pure and brilliant vio- 
let. A collar of clear grey follows this beautiful 
patch, which gradually passes into the shades of the 
under parts. The tail is ample, and deeply forked. 
In the young assuming the perfect plumage fi- 
gured by Lesson, the tail is rather rounded than 
forked, and the whole plumage is of a deep and 
sombre shade, relieved by the white which occupies 
the place of the amethystine patch, by a white cres- 
cent on the breast, and a band of the same colour 
crossing the rump. In the succeeding plate of the 
young, the likeness to the other representations is 
scarcely recalled ; the upper parts are of a chaste 
reddish-brown, tinged with green on the head, and 
