746 h u m m i n g - b i r d .
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are narrow, and long, forming a creft; fome of them being three
quarters of an inch in length : wing coverts and quills blue : tail
red, like the body, and the two middle feathers much exceed the
others in length : legs black.
Inhabits Mexico.
2.
TOPAZ
H. B.
Tfocbilus pelk, Lin. S y fi.i. p. 189. N° 2.
Le Colibri rouge a longue queue de Surinam, Brif. orn. iii. p. 69©. N° i f *
Le Colibri topaze, Buf. oif vi. p. 46.
----------- de Cayenne, dit le topaz, Pi. enL 599. 1.
Long-tailed red Humming-bird, Edvj. i. t. 32.
Grand Colibri, Perm. De/cr. de Surinam, ii. p. 195.
D e s c r i p t io n . 'T 'H I S bird is not much inferior to a Wren in fize : the length
to the end of the tail about fix inches, but i f the two middle
feathers are taken in, two inches longer. The bill is bent, fourteen
lines in length *; and black 5 the head, and hind part of the
neck, are black j which, pafling forwards to the breaft, forms there
a black crefcent: the chin, and fore part of the neck, above the
crefeent, are of the colour of polilhed gold, or rather that of a cfoj>az,
appearing in fome lights green ! the breaft is of a rofo-cdlour :
back and wing coverts orange red: quills dull purple : rump
and tail coverts green-gold : the tail has the two middle feathers
much longer than the others j tbefe are. of the fame colour with
the quills j but the reft of the tail feathers are reddilh orange :
the legs are black.
* Per min fay's two inches
t Bujfan fay3, deep purple, with tbe back and ftecfci
I The
T h t female is faid to differ in having no elongated feathers in
the tail the gilded topaz, colour of the throat too is wanting,
being only marked with a flight trace of red : and inftead of the
fine brilliant purple and rufous plumage of the male, that of the
female is almoft wholly of a gilded green : the legs are white in.
both foxes.
Inhabits Surinam.
Trochilns fupereiEofus, Lix. Syfi. i. i8y.
Le Colibri a longue queue de Cayenne, Brif, orn. iii. p. 686. N° 13,
t. 35. f. 5.
Le Brin blanc, Buf. oif. vi, p. 49-,
Golibri a longue queue de Cayenne, PI, enl. 600. f. j *,
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
H p H E bill of this fpecies is much bent, an inch and a half or
more in length, being out of proportion to the body, the
whole length of the bird, from bill to tail, being lefs than fix
inches : the plumage above is brown, with a gilded glofs : over
each eye is a whitilh ftripe ; the wing coverts are brown : the
quills the fame, but inclining to violet: the under parts of the
body rufous white : the two middle feathers of the tail exceed the
others in length above an inch ; the others are not of equal lengths,
thofe neareft the middle being much longer than the outer ones,
which are very fhort; the two middle ones are half gilded brown
the end half white; the others have likewife their lowed: half
• This fgure may deceive: the two middle tail feathers have the ends coloured
Brown, inftead of white ; and the reft of the tail feathers- are all of equal lengths,
whereas they ftiould be all unequal.
F emale.
P l a c e ,
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SUPERCILIOUS
H. B.
D esceeptiow,
5 C a lilded