natterer’s homming-bird. 
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breast and belly. The forehead is clothed with bright 
green and scaly feathers, and is separated from the 
golden but duller green of the hind head and upper 
parts by a bandelet of deep velvety black, which runs 
over the head in a line with and from eye to eye. 
The throat and front of the neck is shining green, and 
the feathers, lengthened and narrow, form a beautiful 
gorget displayed upon the dark indigo of the breast. 
The vent and under tail-coverts are dirty white. The 
tail is equal at the end, and, like those of this form, 
has the feathers broad and expanded ; it is of a me- 
tallic green colour — of an equal brilliancy above and 
beneath. 
Lesson has changed Natterer’s name to that of the 
discoverer himself ; but, independent of priority, when 
not entirely inappropriate it cannot be a compliment 
to change the name given by the discoverer, even 
when substituted by his own ; we have therefore 
retained it. 
