colour : quills dufky: the two middle tail feathers are green; the
next on each fide black; the three outer ones fteel black at the
bafe, and the end half-white, deepeft on the outer feather: ths
tail rounded at the end: legs black.
Defcribed from a fpecimen at Sir Jofeph Banks’s.
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Sr. Muf.
T ENGTH four inches and a half. Bill bent, an inch and a
quarter in length, and of a brown colour: crown of the
head, chin, breaft, and middle of the back, green: from the
bill, through the eye, is a ftripe of fine blue, palling behind almoft
to the nape ; the lower part of this is edged with black :
the upper parts of the body and wings are brown: the belly and
vent of the colour of cinnabar, but not glofly like the reft of the
plumage : the tail even at the end, and of a brown colour : the
legs are alfo pale brown.
A fpecimen of this is in the Britijh Mufeum, but no hiftory annexed
to ft.
S.UFOUSBELLIED
H.B.
Le Colibri du B.refil, Brif. orn. iii. p. 670. N° 3.
Le Colibri a venire rouffatre, Buf. oif. vi. p. 63.
Guianumbi minorroftroincurvo, Raii/ytt. p. 83. N° 4.—Will. orn. p. 232.
. N ° 4 \ Guianumbi quarta fpecies, Marcgr. Braf. p. 197..
.^De s c r i p t i o n . rT 'H E total length of this bird is four inches. Bill an inch and
a half long; the under mandible yellow at the bafe, and
black
black at the tip ; the upper one wholly black : the upper parts of
•the body are green gold, glofled with copper ; the under parts
rufous white: quills violet brown : tail blackifh, with a call of
green, and tipped with white: legs covered with feathers to the
toes, of a yellowifh white colour : the toes themfelves black.
Inhabits Brajil.
J^ ENG TH three inches and a half. Bill an inch and a half
long, and hooked; colour black; but the under mandible is
yellowilh, from the bafe almoft to the tip : the upper part of the
plumage is green gold; beneath rufous, growing paler towards
the vent : from the bafe of the bill is a yellowifh white ftripe,
which pafles under the eye, and growing broader expands into
a roundifh fpot over the ears : the two middle tail feathers are
dufky, the reft dufky at the bafe, with the end half rufous; all
the feathers tipped with white at the ends : the legs yellowifh:
•claws black.
In the colleftion of Mifs Blmefield.
Le Plaftron blanc, Buf. oif.vi. p. 61.
Le Colibri de St. Domingue, Pi. enl. <58o. f.
Lev. Muf.
HE length o f this fpecies is four inches; that of the bill
* an inch : the upper parts of the body are green gold : beneath,
from the throat to the lower part of the belly, of a pearly
grey: the tail is of a fteely black blue near the bafe, then pur-
plifh brown, afterwards crofted with a glofly black brown band
and finally, white at the tips.
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