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gilded brown, then black, with the ends brown, edged with white:
leg-s and claws brown.
Inhabits Cayenne.
Trochilus polytmus, Lin. Syß. i. p. 189. N°4.
L ’Oifeau-mouche ä telle noire, & queue fourchue, Brif. om. iii. p. 729 * ^ *9 *
L’Oifeau-mouche ä longue queue noire, Buf. of. vi. p. 39.
Long-tailed Humming-bird, Albin. iii. pi. 49.
Long-tailed black-cap Humming-bird, Ed*w. i. 34.*—Bauer. Guian. p. 169.
Br. M if. Lev. Muß
THE whole length of this bird, taking inthe long tail feathers,
is above nine inches and a half. The bill is ten lines in
length, very little bent, in colour yellow, with a black tip : irides
yellow * : the top of the head, and a little way on the neck behind,
black : the upper parts in general are of a yellowifh green :
the tinder parts of a gloffy blueifh green: edge of the wing '
white' wing coverts violet brown t quills the fame, the
margin of the firft white : the tail feathers are blackifh, and very
unequal in length; the two outer «nes being fourteen lines long,
the two next feven inches, the next to thefe only one inch, and
the two middle ones only half an inch; thefe different lengths
making the tail appear forked : the legs are black.
I do not find an author who has mentioned the female-, but in
the fame cafe with one of thefe birds, at Leicefier-houje, is one lent
for the mate of this fpecies: the fize of the bird, and the bill, exactly
the fame: the bafe of the under mandible white half way 5
the reft, and upper, black: the crown is of a dulky brown : the
upper parts of the body are of the fame kind of green as in the
* A lbin%
other
other fex : all the under parts from the chin to the vent white :
clofe to the green, the white on each fide of the neck is marbled
with green, as if nature did not choofe that the different colours
ihould be too abruptly divided: 'the tail is green, but without the
long feathers j and the tips of all but the two middle ones are
white nearly half way from the tip.
This inhabits Jamaica., Guiana, and the fouth parts of America,
Albin fays, he found it on its neft, which was made of cotton,
but deferibes it as a fmall fpecies.
Both Bttffon and Briffon have ranked this and the next with the
Jlrait-billed birds; but Linnaus and Klein with the crooked ones :
on examination, there will be found a curvature, juft enough to
juftify this divifion in fentiment.
P laces.
be Colibri a longue queue du Mexique, Brif. urn. iii. p. 688. N* 14.
be Brin bleu, Buf. oif. vi. p. j i .
Avis, Yayauquitototl * difta, Sela, i. p. 84. t. 51. f. 7.
'J 'H IS is a large fpecies, being compared by Briffon almoft to the
fize of a Fig-eater; length eight inches and a quarter. The
bill in length is an inch and a quarter, and of a yellowifh colour:
the fore part of the head, about the eyes, the throat, and fore part
of the neck, are blue : the upper parts, from the nape to the vent,
are green, but deepeft on the back: from the bread: to the vent
the colour is cinereous grey : the two middle feathers of the tail
are of a fine blue colour, and longer than the fide ones by two
* This is quoted by Briffon, and may be the bird meant by Seta ; but Baffin
obferves, that Yayaupiitototl is alfo the ilame of a bird mentioned by Hernandez,
as big as a Starling.
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