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VIOLET-- TAILED H. B. D escription. Place. ■ 12'. -1- BLACK- BELLIED H. B. D escription. Le Colibri a queue violettc, Buf. o f. vi. p. 55. i ' ■ ' ■— de Cayenne, PI. ml. 671. f. 2. ' J ’HE length of this bird is fix inches ;, that of the bill fixteen’ lines, and bent. The fides o f the throat are white; down the middle it is brown mixed with greenthe fides-are the fame: the breaft and belly white; the quills of a violet brown * : all the upper parts of the body,, placed in an oppofite view, appear- richly gilded, and, viewed on one fide, look green: the four middle feathers of the tail are of a deep violet, glofled with a gilded yellow; the fix outer ones are violet alfo, but have the tips, and! part of the inner margins, white : ; legs dulky., Inhabits Cayenne^. Trochilus holofcriceus, Lin. Syf. i. p.191. K°: r I .- Le Colibri du Mexique, B rif or». iii. p. 676. N° 7.- t. 35. f. 2.' Le Golibri vert & noir, Buf. oif. vi. p. 53. Black-bellied green Humming-bird, Edna. i. t. 36. Black-bellied American Humming-bird, Bancroft Guian. p. 169.' J ENGTH four inches and a quarter. Bill black, rather more than an inch in length :: the head, neck, and' upper parts'of the body, are green gold, with a - glbfs of copper : The breaft, belly, fides, and thighs, Ihining black, with, a reddilh tinge : acrofs the breaft is a tranfverfe band of blue, and'on the lower part of the belly another leffer one of white : the tail is deep * The quills of mod of. the Humming-birds feem to be nearly of this colour. a black, -black, with a blue glofs like polilhed fteel; all the feathers are •of equal lengths: legs black. Edwards has figured another with this, in the fame plate, which he fuppofet the female, as it anfwered the above defcription in all things, except that the-white-mark on the belly was wanting. I have one of thefe birds, which, inftead of the white on the belly, has only a white lpot on each fide, and the bird is rather Jefs in fizp. Inhabits Mexico and Guiana. Le Colibri piquets, B rif orn, iii. p. 66g* N° 2. Le Zitzil, on Colibri piquete, Buf. oif. vi. p, 50. Hoizitziltototl, Fernand. Hiß\ Mex. p. 705. ■ J ^ENGTH five inches and a half. Bill black; in length thirteen lines and a half: the head, hind part of the neck, back, rump, fcapulars, and under parts of the body, are green gold, with a glofs of copper : the throat, fore part of the neck, and wing coverts, the fame, but marked with fmall white fpots : quills violet brown : tail greenifh brown, tipped with white : legs and claws black. Inhabits Mexico. Le Colibri à cravate verte, Buf. oif. ni. p. 56. —— — 11 à gorge verte de Cayenne, PI. ml. 671. f. 1. * 1 VHIS is about the fame fize as the laft; but the bill is not fo J * long. The upper parts of the body and tail are of a deep .gilded green: on the. throat is a dalh of very bright emerald 5 ° 2 green, Places. >3- L SPOTTED H. B. D escription. P lace. 1 4 - GREEN- THROATED H. B. D escription.