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P4U R2Pt-LECROWNED
Purple-crowned Haney-fucker, Gen. Binls, p. 63. pi, 8. f. 2.
H. B.
D escription. f^ROWN purple: throat green: round rhe whole of the lowep
part of the neck a collar of rich deep blue : back green :■
wings, and tail, which is forked, of a deep purple.
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ORANGEHEADED
Orange-headed Honey-fucker,. Gen. Birds, p. 63. pi. S. f. 3;
H. BDiscajpTioN.
J-JEAD orange: throat and breaftyellow : back and belly deep1
brown : wings purple : tail bright ferruginous;
The three laft are from Mr. Pennant’s laft Genera of. Birds -, the
whole of whofe defcription we have here copied.
LITTLE Humming-bird of a black colour, Bauer. Gaia*, p. 166.
H. fc.
D e s c r i p t io n , npHIS, he fays, is the leaft of the tribe; being in-length only an
inch and a half, and weighing, when compleat, frequently
dels than fifty grains. The bill is black, a little bent at the end,
and half an inch in length : the body greenilh brown, with-a red,
fhining, inimitable glofs: the head is crefted with -a (mail tuft,
green at bottom, but of a fparkling gold-colour at top: quills
and tail fine black.
Plici. This is found at Guiana-, and the velocity of it in flying is fo
great, that the eye can fcarce keep pace with its motion.
'• With
L ’Oifeau-mouche a larges tuyaux, Buf. tip. vi. p. 33.
— — -------- de Cayenne, PI. er.l, 672. f. 2
T ^ I S and the following are the largeft of the ftrait-billed Humming
birds ; the one here delcribed being four inches eight
lines in length : the whole upper part o f the .body is light g/lded
green: the under part g r e y th e two middle tail feathers the colour
of the back; but the others are of a polilhed brown, tipped
With white : but what diftinguilhes this from any other of the
fpecies, is the breadth of three or four of the quills of each wing,
the (hafts of which are fpread out much in breadth, and bentTn
the middle, fo as to give the wing the appearance of a fabre.
This came from Cayenne: is a fcarce fpecies.
SHAFTED
H. B.
D escription.
Trochiliis iftellivorUs, Lin. Syfl. i. p. Xgi. N<> 2o.
L ’Oifeau-mouche a collier de Surinam, Brif. orn. iii. p. 7-13. N° rr.
L ’Oifeau-mouche a collier, ditla Jacobine, Buf. oif vi. p. 34.
L ’Oifeau-mouche, die la Jacobine de Cayenne, PI. enl. 640. f. 2.
White-bellied Humming-bird, Eet<w. i. e. 35. f. 1.
J^ EN G TH four inches two lines. Bill ten lines long, and
black : the head, throat, and neck, are blue, glofied with a
rich gold-colour : on the hind part of the neck, beneath the blue,
is a band of white : back, rump, fcapulars, upper tail, and Idler
wing coverts, green gold, gloffed with copper: bread, belly,
thighsyand under tail coverts, white: greater wing coverts and
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