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SYNOPSIS OF THE TROCHILIDJE. 
liant emerald-green; vent and under tail-coverts 
white ; a white stripe from the rictus below the eyes. 
Inhabits Brazil. 
Pl. XIV. VoL. I 10. T. SCUTATUS, Xattercr's Ilumming- 
Bird, — Oiseau-mouche dcussonnd, Temm, PI. Col. 
ccxcix. fig. 3. Le Nattercr, Less. O. M. xvi. and Ixi. 
Above golden-green ; front and gorget bright emer- 
ald-green ; two ample tufts springing from below each 
eye of a deep indigo-blue, tipped with dull-yellow; 
breast and belly iiidigo-blue ; flanks greenish ; vent 
and under tail-coverts white ; tail square. Inhabits 
Brazil. 
Pl. X. VoL. I. Pl. VII. Vol. II.— 11. T. Delalandii, De- 
lalande's Humming-Bird — Vieill, Did. <THist. Nat. 
— Temm. Pl. Col. xviii. Le Plumet bleu,L^ss. O. M. 
xxiii. xxiv. Above golden-green; behind the eye a 
white stripe ; forehead and crown brilliant emerald- 
green, continued by a pointed crest of rich indigo-blue, 
the longest feather narrow and tipped with white ; 
under parts deep indigo-blue; vent and under tail- 
covcrts grey. Female wants the crest ; grey beneath ; 
tail handed with deep indigo-bluc, tipped with white. 
Inhabits Brazil. 
Pl. VI. Vol. II. — 1*2. T. Loddigesii, Lodiliges’s Humming- 
Bird. — ^L'Oiseau-mouche Loddigc, Less. Troch. li. 
Above golden-green, under parts pale grey, marked 
in the centre of the brea.st and belly wdth a velvety 
patch of deep black ; crown and elongated crest en- 
tirely of a rich violet-blue ; tail graduated, steel-blue, 
white at the tip. Inhabits Brazil. 
The two last form the genus Cephalepla of Loddigc. 
Pl. XII. Vol. I 13. T. sephanoides. Violet-crowned 
Humming-Bird. — Orthorhynehus sephanoides, Less, 
et Garn. Zool. de la Coq. xxxi. Above, golden-green ; 
underneath, yellowiah-white, feathers spotted with 
grey ; crotim with a rounded crest, rich reddish vio- 
let. Inhabits Chili, Talcaguana. 
Pl. V. Vol. II. — 14. T. Stokesii, Stoke’s Humming-Bird. 
— Proceed. Zool. Soc. Lond. Le Stokes, Less. 
Troch. 1. Back and rump brilliant emerald-green, 
