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SCALY BACKED HUJIMING-BIED. 
Trochilvs Eurynorrms. — Lesson. 
Plate XXVIII. 
Le Colibri Eurynome, Trochilus Eurynomus, Lesson, Tro- 
chilidees, PI. xxxi. 
This species, undescribcd before the work of M. 
Lesson, is about six inches and a half in length, in- 
cluding the long centre tail-feathers ; the head and 
back of the neck is covered with brown scaly fea- 
thers, fringed with chestnut ; the remaining upper 
parts are of a fresh green, the plumes having the form 
of scales, large and rounded, and fringed with a dull 
reddish tinge ; the upper part of the auriculars is black, 
while an ochreous yellow line runs above, and one 
of the same colour from the extremity of the gape ; 
the throat has the feathers also in the form of scales 
brown in the centre, and fringed with ochreous yel- 
low ; the neck, breast, belly, and flanks, are brownish 
grey, dashed with reddish ; the lower tail-coverts are 
of a reddish chestnut ; the tail is wedge-shaped, the 
centre feathers much prolonged and narrow, green 
for the length of the others, the projecting tips white ; 
the other feathers are of a deep black at the base , 
