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The Ruby-created Humming-Bird. 

 {Chrysolanipis moschitus). 



" Generic characters. Culinen feathered down a long way 

 from the base and nasal covers completely hidden. Sexes 

 dissimilar. (One species only). 



" Adult male. Upper surface rich dark brown, darker on 

 the anterior part of the back ; crown, nape and back of the 

 neck glittering ruby-red ; throat and breast glittering topaz- 

 orange ; abdomen dusky brown ; under tail coverts and tail 

 chestnut red, the latter tipped with black ; bill black. Total 

 length about 3-5 ins., wing 2-25, tail i"3, bill 075. 



Adult female. Upper surface dull green, tinted with 

 bronze on the back of the neck ; sides of the head and under 

 surface dusky white, darker on the breast ; under tail coverts 

 nearly white; tail purple black, the central retrices bronzy 

 green, the lateral tipped with white. 



Young male, like tne female, the glittering feathers of the 

 adult first appearing in the middle of the throat and after- 

 wards on the crown. 



Habitat : Tropical America from Bahia to Guiana, the 

 Amazon Valley, Trinidad and Colombia." (B. M. Cat., Vol. XVI., 

 P- 113)- 



Gould remarks that although thi.s bird i.s one of 

 the first known to European nattiralists, and one of 

 the most conspicuous and beautiful of the group, 

 practically nothing appears to have been known of its 

 habits in his time. Unforttmately this species was 

 one of the first to sticcunib after the arrival of the 

 consignment, though I liad time to make the studies 

 from which the figure of the plate was drawn. 



Prevost's Mango {^Lampornis prcvosti). 



" This genus comprises manj' species, some of which 



inhabit the West Indian Islands, and others the mainland. 



The best known among them, the Lanipomis mango, has a 



wider range than anv of the others, as will be seen on reference 



