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The Naiural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
Head, Back, and Neck, were of a brown and changezble Colour, 
the Wings brown, the Legs very fmall, black, three ‘oes before, 
and one behind, having long fharp Claws, the Neck, Belly, and 
Breaft were grey, or of a whitifh Colour, with fome few brown 
Spots in it, efpecially under the Chaps. 
The Tongue was white, long, proportionable to the Bill. The 
Stomach was white, as big as a large Pin’s Head and round, the 
Circumvolutions of the Guts varicus, the Heart and Liver large, the 
Stomach, was full of the Fariva and Stamina, contain’d in the inner 
Part of the Flowers about which they conftantly hover, in fearch of 
thefe Parts for their Nourifhment, they refting inthe fame Place on 
their Wings, and putting in their long Bills to draw or take out the 
aforefaid Parts, of which I found their Stomach by a Microfcope to 
be crowded, the Excrement of the Belly is hard and whitifh. 
They are always to be found where Flowers are. 
Their Eggs are all white, and not fo large as a fmall Field Pea. 
It makes a Noife in flying juft like an humble Bee. | 
When they fly in Sunfhine, I think I never faw a more beautiful 
Sight, the Feathers being moft delicately colour’d and tranfparent. 
They as Maregrave fays, make a Noife in flying, Hur, har, har, with 
their Wings beating againft the Air as a Wheel turn’d round, and 
have no pleafant Note but what may be faid to be as that of the 
Sparrow, cherping or Screp, fcrep, fcrep, asthe fame Marcgrave fays. 
They are I think all the Year long in ‘famaica, but more plenti- 
fully and in greater Variety after the Rains when the Flowers are 
moft frequent. 
Pifo’s Account of their coming from a Caterpillar as a Butterfly, 
is altogether Fabulous. 
This Bird, Feathers, Inwards, gc. put into the Ballance’ when juft 
kil?d, weigh’d not over twenty Grains, 
XXXIX. Mellivora avis major. Tab. 264. Fig. 2. Ratj. ya. p. 187. 
Gusinumbi prima fpecies. Marcgr. p. 196. ed. 1648. Willughb. Angl. 
p- 231. Tab. 42. Pif p. 318, ed. 1658. 
The Larger Humming Bird. 
This is the fame in every thing with the former, only it is larger 
in every Refpect, and hath thé Back of a livelier and lighter colour’d 
Green. | | 
It is to be found with the former, with which it agrees in Food, 
Way of Living, and the inward Structure of the Parts. | 
XL: Mellivora avis maxima, Femina. Tab. 264. Fig. 3, Raij. yt 
p. 187. Guainumbi. 5a. fpecies Marcgr. p. 197. ed. 1648, “Wellaghb. 
Angl. p. 232. 
The Largeft or Blackeff Humming Bird. 
This was Five Inches long from the end of the Bill to that of the 
Tail, and feven from the end of one Wing expanded to that of the 
other; the Bill was round, black, crooked, one Inch and a quarter 
long, the Head, Neck, and Back were of a very dark changeable Green 
and blue Colour, the Tail and Wings the fame, only fome Purple 
Feathers intermix’d, the two Sides of the Neck were Purple, the uncer 
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