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RUFOUS-BELLIED HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilus rufiyaster Vieillot. 
Plate IV. Male. 
Colibri a ventre roussatre, Temminck , Planches Coloriees, pi. 
cxx. fig. 2, female. — Lc Colibri a ventre roux, Lesson Ilistoire 
Naturelle des Colibris , pi. ix. male. 
According to the work of M. Lesson, perhaps at 
present the best authority for the distinction of species 
in this beautiful tribe, this bird is not identical with 
the Trochilus Brasiliensis of Dr Latham ; and it has 
also been confused with some states of the “ Brin 
blanc,” T. super ciliosus, and with the T. squalidus 
of Temminck and Natterer, though we should have 
thought the difference of size presented by the former, 
sufficient to distinguish it. We give the description 
of Lesson, which accompanies the copy used for our 
plate. The entire length is scarcely three inches, of 
which the bill will make about eleven lines ; that 
member is lengthened, slender and bending, yellow at 
the base, and blackish towards the tip ; the head, 
upper part of the neck, and back, are of a bronzed 
green, which passes into a rich cinnamon colour upon 
the rump ; the wings small and narrow, of a brownish 
