60.
- LEAST
H. B.
D escripti
Female.
Place.
Trochilus minimus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 193. N° 22.
L ’Oifeau-mouche, Brif. orn. iii. p. 695. N° 1. t. 36. f. 1. the male*
Le plus petit Oifeau-mouche, Buf. oif. vi. p. 11. t. 1.
— —•— — ....... .......de l’Amerique, Pl. enl. 276. f. 1.
Guainumbi minor, corpore toto cinereo, Rati. Syn. p. 83. N° 7..
The feventh fpecies, or leaft Humming-bird of Marcgrave, Will. orn. \\z.
— Rati. Syn. p. 187. N° 44.
Leaft Humming-bird, Sloane Jam. ii. p. 307. N° 38.—Edw. ii. t. io£.
the female.— Bro^wn Jam. p. 475. the female.
'I f HIS is by much the leaft of all the fpecies: fmall indeed,
fince it-is exceeded, both in weight and dimenfions, by-
more than one fpecies of Bees ƒ Sir Hans Sloane obferves, that
it weighs no more than twenty grains when frefli killed : the total
length is one inch and a quarter. The bill is black; three lines and
a half in length: the upper parts of the head and body are of a
greenilh gilded brown, in fome lights appearing reddilh; the under
parts are greyilh white : the wings are violet brown ; the tail
of a blueifh black, with a glofs of polilhed metal; but the outer
feather but one, on each fide, is grey from the middle to the tip ;
and the outer one wholly grey: legs and claws brown.
The female is lefs than the male: the whole upper fide of a
dirty brown, with a flight glofs of green : the under parts of a
dirty white.
Thefe birds are found in various parts of South America, and
the iflands contiguous thereto. I have received this fpecies
from Jamaica.
D I R E C -
RONTISPIECE. K ing V u l t u r e .
P l a t e
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II.
III.
IV .
V .
VI.
V I I.
V I I I .
IX.
X .
XI.
X I I .
X I I I.
XIV.
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XVI.
XVII.
B en g a l V u l t u r e —
T he Se c r e t a r y ------,
C hinese E a g l e -----
N ew Z e e l an d F alcon
1. Sib e r ia n E a r e d O w l .
O wl -------
Bl a c k -headed Sh r ik e
T a b u a n P a r r o t
H orned P a r r o t *------
T he T oco -------
B r a s i l ia n M o tm o t
P ied H o rn b il l ------
to face Page i g
------ 20.
5 7
2. A c a d ia n
A f r ic a n B e e f -e a t e r - ............
L esser A ni ------- ——
C inereous W a t t l e B ird — — ■
W h i t e - b r e a s t ed C row — —
B lu e - s t r ip e d R ol l er , M . and F . —
Sh a r p - t a i l e d O riole -------
130
i 6 5
214
248
3 2 5
3 3 8
349
359
360
3 6 4
3 7 6
414
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