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M’HITE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 
The next bird begins to assume more of tlie plum 
age of T. hirsutus ; it is the 
WHITE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilus leucurtis Linnaeus. 
Ti nchilus leiicurus, Lin»UE«« Colibri a collier rouge, Rw/- 
fon.' — ^tVliite-tailed Humming-Bird, LaI/io;n,GeneroI//is- 
tory, iv. 308. — Edwards, pi. cclvi Le colibri ruficol, pi. 
xxii. 
This species is nearly similar to the preceding 
birds in size, but it is of a narrou’er or more slender 
make. The upper parts are of a golden-green ; a 
stripe of reddish-brown passes from the eye above 
the auriculars, and another line of white from the 
rictus below them. The chin is blackish-grey, and 
immediately succeeding is a patch or collar of chest- 
nut-red, without reflections ; from thence the green 
of the upper parts spreads itself upon the breast, in 
the form of a broad band. The belly and vent are 
of a i-eddish-grey ; the under tail-coverts green, bor- 
dered with a fringe of white. The centre tail-fea- 
thers are golden green, those on the outsiile greyish- 
white, each diagonally tipped with black. Tlie plu- 
mage of the female and young do not seem to be 
known. It inhabits Dutch Guiana, and has been 
brought from Surinam. The next very splendid spe- 
cies which we have to introduce, though agreeing in 
