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TRI-COLOURED HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilm tricolor Lesson. 
Plate XIII. 
Lo Tricolore, Ornismya tricolor, Lesson, Hisloire Naturelle 
des Oiseaux-mouches, pi. xiv., and Trochilidees, pi. lx. 
This species, also of great beauty, seems to be 
first described and figured by Lesson. It is about 
three inches in length. It appears to belong to that 
group where the throat is covered with feathers of a 
large size, and which can he expanded at the will of 
the bird. The bill is very slender, and is slightly 
curved. All the upper parts are of a biilliant golden 
green, tinged with brown on the forehead ; the 
breast, belly, and under tail-coverts white, shading 
into green upon the flanks, and the throat and 
fore part of the neck is covered with rather large 
rounded scaly feathers of a brilliant carmine red, 
beautifully relieved by the white of the breast, and 
when expanded forming a rufif or collar. The tail is 
nearly equal at the end, but the feathers become 
narrow towards the tips, almost acuminated, which 
serves to distinguish it from those other species 
which have the throats adorned with an amethyst 
coloured patch. The centre feathers are tinged with 
