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The BLACK-BELLY D GREEN Humine Brirep. 
a HESE Birds are figured of their natural Size; they are of the larger Sort of 
Huming Birds; the Bills in both are long, flender, and a little bent downward, 
not very fharp-pointed, of a black Colour; the Head, Neck, Back, and leffer Coverts 
of the Wings, in the Upper Bird, are of a bluith Green-colour; the feapular Feathers, 
or thofe between the Back and Wings, have fomething of Red mixed with the 
Green; the Breaft 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 Pofture 
at is drawn ; behind the black Part of the Belly is a white Mark acrofs the Vent ; the 
Quill-feathers, and the Row of Coverts next above them, are of a dirty purplifh 
Colour in both Birds, as they are in moft of this Kind; the Tailsin both Birds are 
Black above, and Blue beneath; the Legs and Feet alfo in both are Black, 
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HE fecond Bird, which I believe to be the Hen of the above deferibed, 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 an{wer to this. 
The firft Bird was lent me by ames Theobald, E{q; the other by T. aylor White, Eta; 
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 
Equinodtial they continue all the Year, as I have been informed. 
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