Place.
57-
BLUE-
FRONTED
H. B.
D escription.
Place.
58.
4- ALL-GREEN
H. B.
D escription,
at the tip : the tail coverts are green : bill and legs as in the
former.
This fpecies was met with in Nootka Sound *, on the coaft of
America, by our late voyagers.
L ’Oifeau-mouche a queue fourchue du Brefil, Sri/, orn. iii. p. 724. N® 16.
t. 36. f. 5.
Guainumbi major. Raii Sjix. p. 82. N° 2.
Marcgrave’s fecond Humming-bird, Will. ern. p. 231. N® 2.
n pH E body is very fmall: the length of the bird four inches and
a half. The bill eleven lines, and black : the forehead is
blue, with a tinge of bright violet: the top .of the head deep
green gold : the reft of the body bright green gold, except the
thighs, which are brown, and the vent, which is white : quills violet
brown : tail fteel black, and a little forked : legs feathered to
the toes ; the colour brown, with whitifh tips : toes brown.
Inhabits BraJiL
L’orvert, Buf. oif. vi. p. 17.
All-green Humming-bird, Ed<w. glean. t. 360. f. 1 ?
nPHIS, Buffon obferves, is above all admirable for the very great
brilliancy of its plumage ; in fome lights it appearingrpure
gold, in others green gold of the higheft luftre: the plumage is thus
interchanged as far as the wings : the tail is of a polifhed fteely
* This is nearly in the fame latitude N. as the red-throated fpecies is found
to migrate.
10 brown:
brown: and the belly white. This bird is very fmall, not more
than two inches in length.
Edwards's all-green Humming-bird above mentioned, cannot be
far different; the fize of it is very fmall, and the luftre as brilliant;
but he obferves that the belly is blueilh beneath, and
does not hint one word of any white about it.
It muft be owned, that thefe two laft feem to differ in the colour
of the plumage, but perhaps this may arife from their being
of oppofite fexes. I have, in my colleftion, a bird which I take
to be the above: the length is two inches : the upper parts are
green gold: the under, from chin to vent, white : quills and tail
blue black; the laft a trifle forked : bill and legs black.
This I had from 'Tobago. p
Linnaus places it among the fynonyma of his Mellifugus; but
in the Mufeum Adolphi, which he quotes likewife, this laft is
mentioned as a large Ipecies *.
L’Amethifte, Buf', otf xi. p. 16. 59.
Petit Oifeau-mouche a queue fourchue de Cayenne, PI. ex!. 672. f. 1. AMETHYSTINE
T Hi is about the fize of the red-throated Humming-bird : the D escription.
upper parts of the body green gold ; the under parts mar-
bled with greyilh white and brown : the throat, and fore part of
the neck, are of a bright amethyft-colour; but when the eye is
placed below, they appear of a purplilh brown : the wings are
rather Ihort : and the tail forked.
Inhabits Cayenne.
y Place.
• Corpus inter majores hujus Generis, Muf, Adolph. ii, p. 23.
5 H 2 Tiochilus