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W HITE-COLIiARED H UMMIN G-BIRD. 
Trochilus mellivorus Linnjevs. 
Plate XXX. 
Trochilus mellivorus, Linnaeus, Systema Natures. — White-bellied 
Humming-bird, Edwards's Birds, pi. xxxv. ; Latham's Gene- 
ral History of Birds, vol.iv. p. 324 La Jacobine, Buffon, 
Planches Enluminies, dcxl. ; — Lesson Histoire Naturelle 
des Oiseause-mouches, pis. xxi. and xxii. p. 90. 
This distinctly marked species may be met with 
in almost every collection, and is one of the oldest 
known. The changes from the young to the adult 
plumage are considerable, which has occasioned its 
description under more than one name. The plumage 
of the adult male is a very deep and fine blue on the 
crown, cheeks, throat, and upper part of the breast ; 
the back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and shoulders, 
golden green, marked on the back of the neck with 
a crescent-shaped spot of the purest white ; the belly 
and vent pure white ; the tail, of very broad feathers, 
white, each tipped with black, and narrowly lined 
with the same colour on the outer margins. 
Lesson has figured the female as golden green above, 
including the centre tail feathers, and basal half of the 
