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SPOTTED SAW-BILLED HUMMING-BIRD* 
Ramphodon naevius. — Lesson. 
Plate I. — Male. 
Trochilus naevius, Dumont Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles y 
x. 55. — Colibri tachete, Trochilus ntevius, Temminck , Plan* 
ches Colonels , cxx. fig. 3. — Le Ramphodon tachete, Rampho- 
don maculatum, Lesson , Histoire Naturelle des Colibris, 
pi. i. 
We mentioned in the introductory part of the work, 
that among the humming-birds we did not generally 
meet with, in the form of the bill, any evident provi- 
sion for securing an insect prey as among the truly 
insectivorous tribes, farther than the retractile tongue. 
For the species now figured, there is, however, an 
exception in the strong and rather broad bill, furnished 
upon each edge of the mandibles with strong recurved 
teeth, evidently intended to assist in securing some 
peculiar prey, and reminding us by this formation, 
and the sharp hooked point, of some water-fowl which 
are provided with these requisites, for seizing a plun- 
* It may be here mentioned, that all the figures in this volume 
arc represented of the natural size. 
