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The White~Belly’d Huming Bird, 
HIS Bird, and the Bird defcribed under it, are figured in the Plate, of their na- 
-*«■ tural Bignefs; the Bill is pretty long, draight, and (lender, the Points of the 
upper and lower Mandibles a little bending towards each other, of a black Colour; the 
whole Head and Neck, above and beneath, of a fine Blue; the Back, Rump, and 
leffer Covert-feathers of the Wings of a fine Green ; at the bottom of the Neck be¬ 
hind, is a white Mark, in the form of a Crefcent, the Horns pointing upwards; the 
Belly is white; the Wings are Copper-colour, inclining to Purple; the middle Feathers 
of the Tail are Green, the fide Feathers White, and fomething longer than the middle 
Feathers ; the Legs and Feet of a dark or blackifh Colour; the Colours in this Bird, 
as in moft of this Kind, feem to be mixed with fine golden Threads, which make the 
whole Bird appear very fplendid, when expofed to the Sun-beams,, 
The Green and Blue Huming Bird. 
A S this Bird was brought over with the other, and they agreeing in Shape, Size, 
Form of the Bill and Feet, I have conjectured they may be Male and Female; 
but I leave that to the Determination of the Curious, or future Difcovery; the Billis 
altogether like that above defcribed; the whole head and Neck Green; the Bread 
and upper Part of the Back, Blue; the Thighs and lower Belly of a dirty brown 
Colour; the lefifer Covert-feathers of the Wings, the lower part of the Back and 
Rump Green; but the Rump is of an orient Cad, (hining with a golden Glofs, as do 
the Colours on the Throat and Bread; the Quills and fil'd Row of Coverts, are of a 
dirty Copper-colour, a little inclining to Purple, the Tail of the fame purplilh Co¬ 
lour, the Legs and Feet, Black. 
Thefe Birds came together from Surinam , and are both preferved in the Cabinet 
of his Grace the Duke of Richmond. 
The Brown and White-Dotted Butter-Fly from China 
HPH E Print (hews its full Magnitude ; the upper Wings are dark Brown, dreaked 
and fpotted with White; the extreme Borders, both of the upper and under 
Wings, are White ; the under Wings are White, except a Border of Brown near their 
extreme Edges, plain outwards, and indented inwards; the Body is White, with black 
-Spots; the Head is Orange T colour, as is the Tail for three Joints or Rings from the 
Tip, 
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