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and the outer band becomes broader, assumes a more 
golden lustre, and upon the rump, being tinted with 
red, the shades become similar in beauty to the 
tbroatof the ruby-crested humming-bird; the bright- 
ness of this border becomes still more striking, being 
separated from the blue by a band of deep velvetty 
black. The base of each feather on those parts con- 
cealed, is gray, mottled with black ; upon the tail 
and upper coverts, this gray part becomes apparent, 
and the marks assume the form of bars, one of which, 
immediately succeeding the blue band, surrounds it, 
and makes each feather appear eyed or ocellated. 
From the distribution of the tail-coverts and lower 
feathers of the rump, there are four rows with these 
eyed tips, where the gray basal half of the feathers is 
visible, and which combines very chastely, or keeps 
down as it were the lustre of the others. The tail is 
rounded at the end, and only contains fourteen 
feathers. The lower parts of the body are banded 
with bronze black and green, but without the bril- 
liant lustre of the upper parts. The quills and bas- 
tard pinions are broad, bordered obliquely with white, 
which almost entirely occupies the outer margin of 
the first. The secondaries have the outer webs 
pure white, the bands in the centre not appearing 
when the wings are closed ; the uppermost are 
blotched in the centre with black, having a green 
lustre, which, as the plumes shorten, expands more 
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