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MAGNIFICENT HUMMING-BIRD 
Trochilus magnificus. — Vieillot. 
Plate XIX. Young Male. 
Trochilus magnificus, Oiseau-mouche magnifique, Vieillot , Dio. 
tionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (1817 and 1818); Tem~ 
minck's Planches Coloriees , ccxcix. fig. 2. — Le Hausse-col 
blanc, Omismya strumaria, Lesson , Histoire Naturelle des 
Oiseaux-mouches , pi. xlii. and xliii. p. 143. 
We have given plates of the young male and female 
of this species, as being less known than the bird in 
the adult state, and though presenting plumage of 
less splendour, it is perhaps more chaste and pleasing. 
It also ranges with the form represented by T. ornatus 
and its allies, and the adult male has the neck adorned 
with beautiful plumulets of snowy white, relieved by 
a black or very dark olive-green band on the tip of 
each. These tufts are also so far different, that the 
feathers are much shorter and broader, and scarcely 
present so stiff an appearance as those of its congeners, 
while the ruff extends nearly round like a gorget in 
front. In the young males neither the crest nor ruff 
appears ; the crown of the head is of a dull yellowish 
