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inches four lines; the others fine green, and lefien by degrees
outwardly to the laft, which is very lhort: the legs are yellow.
Inhabits Mexico.
Trochilu-s forficatus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 190. N° 5.
L ’Oifeau-mouche a queue fourchue de la Jamaiq.ue, S r if cm. iil.p. /ttS.
. N° 18 .
L ’Qifeau-mouchea longue queue, Or, vert Sc bleu, Suf. c if vi. p. 38.
Long-tailed green Humming-bird, Edna. i. t.3.3,— Brmunjam. p. 475. .
'T ’O T A L length feven inches two lines. The bill black, very
little bent, and three quarters of an inch in length : top of
the head blue t the reft of the plumage, for the moft part, of
a fplendid green; but the bottom of the belly, under tail coverts,,
and the fides at the bafe, are white : the thighs are brown : q&ills.
violet brown, but the three neareft the body green gold : tail green
gold, with a glofs o f blue; the tail is forked, but not regularly
the two outer feathers are longer than the next by near three
inches; the two middle ones only ten lines long; the others-
lengthening by degrees as they approach outwards : the legs are
Mack.
Inhabits Jamaica. The long feathers of the tail, both in this
and the laft, are fupported at the bafe, both above and beneath»
by a ftiff feather.
L ’Oifeau-mouche violet à queue fourchue de la Jamaïque, Brif. cru. lu.
p. 732. N° 20. t. 37. f. 6*.
L’Oifeau-mouche vioiet i queue fourchue, Bnf. cif. vi. p. 37.
f jpH E whole length of this Ipecies is four inches, of which the
tail js an inch .and a half. The bill is black, and very little
■ curved : the top of the head, and the neck, are of a gilded-green
colour : the back and breaft glofly violet blue : the throat, and
lower part of the back, gilded green ; the lefîèr wing coverts violet
j the greater green -gold : quills black, as are the tail feathers s
the two outer ones longer than the others, rendering the tail
forked, but the longeft feather is only one inch and a half in length :
legs and claws blackilh.
Inhabits Jamaica, Brafil, and Cayenne.
-L’Oifean-mDuche »queue fourchue de Cayenne, B r if cm. iii. p. 726. N317,
t. 36. f. g.
L ’Oifeau-mouche a longue queue coukur d’acierhruni, Buf. cif vi. p. 36.
tSuainumbi minor^Cauda longiff. &c. Raii Syn. p. 83. N° 3. p. 187.
N° 41 .—Will. cm. p. 231.N- 3.— Sioam fa n . p. 309. ‘N° 41,
J EN GTH of the bird fix inches. Bill eleven lines long, black,
and fotrcely bant: the head, throat, and neck, of a violet
blue : general colour of the plumage glofly green gold: on the
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* I have omitted here the references to Ray, WillughLy, and Slcam, as I cannot
reconcile them at all j they feem to fuit the next fpecies better. Linntius
has thought right to unite this to the laft ; but from the difference of colour, as
well a« fize, it appears to me clearly right to keep them feparate,
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