762 H U M M I N G - B I R D .
Pla c e . Inhabits St. Domingo. _
In the collection of Mifs Blomefield is a variety of this, having
a narrow ftripe of fhining green down the middle of the neck,
from the chin to the bread;; and the tail not tipped with white.
Le Golibri bleu du Mexique, Brif. orn. Hi. p. 681. N° 9.
Le Golibri bleu, Buf. oij, vi. p. 61.
Gros Golibri, Du Tertr. Hijl. des Ant. ii, p.263.
Avicufa Mexicana cyaneo cblbre venuftiffima, Seta, i..p. 102. t. 65. f. 3.
23..
CRIMSONHEADED
BLUE
H. B.
D escrip t ion.. H ALF as big as a Wren *. The head, throat, and under part
of the body, to the middle of the belly, are like crimfon
velvet, with different gloffes as they are expofed to different,
lights: all the back, is blue: wings black.
This defcription is from Du Tertre: Buffon thinks that the account
of Briffbn may miflead the reader, not only here, but: in.
every inftance wherein the defcriptions of Seba are relied on._
rises. Inhabits Mexico,
2^. Trochiîus Dooeinicus,.Z./». Syji. i. p. 191. N° 9..
ST. DOMINGO: Le Colibri du St. Dominguê, Brif. orn, in. p. 672. N° 41.
Le vert perlé, Buf. o i j vi. p. 62,
HIS bird meafuresin length a little more'than four Inches..
The bill is-one inch long, and of a brown colour : the upper’parts
of. the head, neck, body, and tail, are of a light, gold,
green,, mixing at the fides of the neck and bread; with the pearly
* Du Tertre.
D escription..
g.rey>
grey, of which colour the under parts are : the wings are brown,
with a tinge of violet : the tail white at the point, and of the colour
of polifhed fteel beneath : legs brown.
Inhabits St. Domingo.
Troclnks Thaumantias, Lin.Syft. i. p. 190. N° 8.
Le Colibri, B r if .urn. iii. p. 667. N° I .—PI. enl. 600. f. 1.
Le petit- Colibri, Buf. oif. vi. p. 64.
■ Guianumbi iexta ipecies, Mareg. Braf, p. 197.— liaii Syn. p. 83. N° 6.—
Will. orn. p. Z32. N° 6.
/T 'H I S , I fhould think, is one of the fmalleft of the crooked-
billed Humming-birds, being only two inches ten lines in
length. The bill is eleven lines long, and the tail thirteen : the
upper mandible black, the lower white: the colour of the plumage
is wholly of a greenifh violet, except the wings, which are
brown; and on the lower part of the belly is a fpot of white:
the two middle tail feathers are of a bright green gold, with a
copper glofs; and the others are the fame, but edged with white;
and the outer one is entirely white on the outer web: legs and
claws black.
Inhabits Brajil, and other parts of South America.
Yellow-fronted Honey-fucker, Gen. Birds, p. 62. pi. 8* f. 1.
Place.
2SADMIRABLE
H.B.
D escription.
Place.
26.
YELLOW-
FRONTED
H. B.
jpOREHEAD yellow: body and wing coverts green: pri- p ESCRi
maries and tail black.
5 £ 2 Purple«*