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The B l a c k-belly’d Green Huming Bird. 
T HESE Birds are figured of their natural Size; they are of the larger Sort of 
Huming Birds', the Bills in both are long, {lender, and a little bent downward, 
not very {harp-pointed, of a black Colour; the Head, Neck, Back, and lefler Coverts 
of the Wings, in the Upper Bird, are of a bluidi Green-colour; the fcapular Feathers, 
or thofe between the Back and Wings, have fomething of Red mixed with the 
Green; the Breafi: and Covert-feathers of the Tail, both above and beneath, are Blue; 
the middle of the Belly is Black, which part is covered by the Wing in the Poflure 
it is drawn; behind the black Part of the Belly is a white Mark acrols the Vent; the 
Quill-feathers, and tho Row of Coverts next above them, are of a dirty purpli/h 
Colour in both Birds, as they are in mod of this Kind ; the Tails in both Birds are 
Black above, and Blue beneath; the Legs and Feet alfo in both are Black. 
T H E fecond Bird, which I believe to be the Hen of the above defcribed, differs 
from that in the Colour of the Green, on the Head, Neck, and Coverts of the 
Wing, which are of a much yellower Green; the Top of the Head, upper Part of the 
Neck and Back, being intermixed with a red Colour; it wants the white Bar acrofs the 
lower Belly or Vent; in all other Particulars the above Defcription will anfwer to this. 
The firdBird was lent me by James Theobald , Efq; the other by Taylor White , Efq; 
From what particular Part they came, I could not be informed; but we know that 
America only produces thefe Birds, and chiefly between the Tropicks, they being 
rarely met with far without the Tropicks, and not at all in Winter. Near the 
Equino&ial they continue all the Year, as I have been informed. 
T his p/y is Yellow, fpotted with Black; the Eyes are reddidi ; the Wings are 
tranfparent; the greater Wings a little thick toward their fetting on, and of a 
browner Colour, which parts are didinguidied by crofs Hatching between the Veins 
of the Wings ; there are two dark Spots in the Ends of each of the larger Wings; 
the lefler Wings are of an equal Ciearnefs without Spots. 
This Fly came from Amhonia , and was lent me by Mr. Dandridge. I need not men¬ 
tion the Size of the Infedts here figured, becaufe they will all be jud of the natural Size. 
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