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get and breast bright emerald-green ; tips of the pro- 
longed feathers oblong: tarsi thickly plumed with 
hair-like feathers. Inhabits 
The two last fonna Lesson’s genus Vlatunu. 
Pl. XXVII. VoL. I. — 10. C. EKicuRUS, Half-tailed Hum- 
ming-Bird. — Vkill. Nouv, Diet. d. Hist. Nat. Oiseau- 
mouche a queue singulicre, Temm. — Less. 0. M. xv* 
Above bright green ; gorget violet, succeeded by 
bands of white and yellow ; belly and vent green ; 
tail of six feathers. Inhabits Brazil, Island of Tri- 
nite. 
Pl. XXVI. VoL. I. — 11. C. Dupontii, Dupont's Humming- 
Bird. — ^L’Oiseau-mouche Zemes, Omismya Dupontii, 
Less. Supp. pl. i. Above golden-green, the gorget rich 
blue with violet reflections, succeeded by a band of 
white, whence the under parts are grey ; tail deeply 
forked, the outer feathers narrowing and again ex- 
panding at the tips, as in C. platurus, but never leav- 
ing the shaft bare ; all are tipped with pure white. 
Inhabits Mexico. 
22. C. CoNiVETTii, Conivet’s Humming-Bird. — L'Oiseau- 
mouche parvule, Ornismya Conivetii, Less. Supp. 
xxxvii. — ^Above golden-green, beneath dark emerald- 
green ; tail deeply forked ; feathers broad, brownish- 
black, tipped with grey; base of the upper mandible 
orange-yellow. Inhabits Brazil. 
Pl. XXI. VoL. II. — 13. C. polytmus, Black-Capped Hum- 
ming-Bird — Edw., Lath. Omismya cephalatra, 
Less. Col. xvii. Crown black, the feathers loose 
and lengthened *, upper parts, belly, and vent, rich 
golden-green ; gorget, covering the whole of the throat 
and fore part of the neck, bright bmerald-green ; 
outei tail-feathers much lengthened. Female with 
the under parts white ; wants the long feathers of 
the tail. Inliabits Guiana and Jamaica. 
14. C ? JUGULARLS, Red-breasted Humming-Bird.— T. ju- 
gularis, Linn ? Red-breasted Humming-Bird, Edw. 
Above and below of a deep velvetty black, with vio- 
let reflections; gorget extending upon the breast 
carmine ; tail steel-blue, rounded. Inhabits Guiana, 
