AVES. 469 



Sp. Trochilus supercUiosus L., Bdpf. PI. enl. 600, fig. 3, Lesson CoUbr, 

 PI. 6, 7 ; Brasil, &c. 



Oreotrochilus Gould. Bill scarcely longer than head, moderately 

 curved. Tail rounded, with feathers attenuated. Tarsi feathered. 



Sp. Trochilus Estella D'Oebignt, Gould TrocMUd. PI. 2; — Trochilus 

 Jamesonii Jaedine, Trochilus Pichincha Boueeieb, Gould 1. 1. PI. 19, 

 Jaedine Contrib. to Ornith. 1850, PI. 43, Peru &c. These species live on 

 high mountains close to the line of pennanent snow. 



Polytmus Briss., GTray. Bill elongate. Tail broad, rounded. 

 Tarsi partly feathered. 



Sp. Trochilus mango L., Buff. PI. enl. 680, figs. 2, 3, Less. Colihr. PI. 13 — 

 15 ; from the West Indies, &c. 



Trochilus Gray, Gould, (add Topaza Gray). Bill moderately 

 curved, elongate. Tail emarginate, with two lateral feathers some- 

 times very long. Tarsi short, partly feathered. 



Sp. Trochilus Polytmus L., Ornismya cephalatra (sic) Lesson Ois. mouch. 

 PI. 17, Gould 1. 1. PI. i ; Jamaica; — Trochilus Pella L., Buff. PI. enl. 

 599, fig. I, Less. Ornith. PI. 73, fig. i, Colihr. PI. 2 — 5; Guyana, &c. 



tt With hill straight. 



Mellisuga Briss., Gray, Orthorhynchus Lacep., Less. (excl. of 

 some species.) 



Sp. Trochilus minimus L., Eylocharis nigra Geat, Beiss. Ornith. iii. PI. 35, 

 figs. I, 8, Buff. PI. enl. 276, fig. i, Less. Ois. mouch. PI. 79, Gould 1. 1. 

 PI. 30 ; at St Domingo ; this extremely small bird is only 2 inches 3 lines 

 long from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail. 



To the straight-billed humming-birds, which the French Zoologists name 

 Oiseaux mouches, belong a still greater number of species than to the 

 preceding division. The bill is of very various lengths in some even 

 shorter than the head, and awl-shaped, as Ornismya Linclenii Parzudaki, 

 Guee. Revue et Mag. de Zool. 1849, ^^- ^» Oxypogon Linclenii Gould 1. 1. 

 PI. 13; — Ornismya microrhyncha Boissonneau, Guee. Magas. de Zool. 

 1840, Ois. PI. 16; in most longer than the head, as, Trochilus sparganurus 

 Shaw, Ornismya Sappho IiESS. Ois. mouch. PI. 27, 28, Cometes sparganu- 

 rus Gould 1. 1. PI. 47 ; in some as long even as the whole body, Trochilus 

 ensiferus, Ornismya ensifera Boissonn., Guer. Magas. de Zool. 1840, 

 Ois. PI. 15, Bocimastes ensiferus Gould 1. 1. PI. 7. Here the bill is 

 in some degree bent upwards; such is more decidedly the case in other 

 species, of which the bill is less elongated, as Trochilus recurvirostris, 

 Campyloptcnis recurvirostris Swains., Less. Ois. mouch. PL 37, Colihr., 

 Ois. m., Suppl. PI. 34. and Trochilus avocetta Less. Colihr., Ois. m., Suppl. 

 PI. 24, Trochil. PI. 23. 



Note. — Here also are to be referred sub-genera Hylocharis and Heliothrix 

 BoiE, and several genera of Gould, here omitted. 



