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and tail blueish ; the hind part of the head, back, 

 breast, wing-coverts, and rump green gold: the 

 throat white: the vent rufous; the tail blackish, 

 and of a pointed shape, and the plumage of the 

 whole bird glossy. Native region unknown. 



GREAT CAPE HUMMING-BI UD. 



Troclrilus Capensis, T. curcirostris viridis, rectricibus intcrmedils 

 loiigis, tectricibus alarum cceruleis. Lath. ind. orn. 



Green Humming-Bird, with long middle tail-feathers, and blue 

 wing-coverts. 



Trochilus Capensis. Lin. mantiss. 1771. p. 525. 



Ekclberg's Humming-Bird. Lath. syn. suppl. 2. 



DESCRIBED by a Mr. Ekelberg, on whose au- 

 thority it was admitted by Linnaeus into his Man- 

 tissa of the Systema Nature. Its size is said to be 

 that of a Swallow, and its colour gold-green, with 

 black quill-feathers and tail, of which the two mid- 

 dle feathers are thrice the length of the rest, which 

 are edged towards the base with a gloss of green, 

 and the vent-feathers are black with lucid blue 

 spots. Native, according to Mr. Ekelberg, of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and perhaps may in reality 

 rather belong to the genus Certhia than to that of 

 Trochilus, which seems, in general, confined to the 

 regions of America and the West Indies. I am 

 even induced to suspect that the above supposed 

 Humming-Bird of Mr. Ekelberg may be nothing 

 more than the Certhia famosa of Linnaeus. 



