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-SUPERCILIOUS HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trocliilus superciliosus. T. aureo-fuscm subtus canus, rostr* 



longo, superciliis rcctricibusque mediis elongatis a Ibis. 

 Gilded-brown Humming-Bird, grey beneath, with long bill, 



white brows, and elongated middle tail-feathers white at the 



tips. 

 Trocliilus superciliosus. T. curcirostris fuscus nitcns, rectrkibus 



intermediis longis, abdomine subincarnato, superciliis albis. Lin. 



Syst. Nat. 



Le Brin-blanc. Buff. ois. Fifll.pl. 17. 18. 19. 

 Colibri a longue queue de Cayenne. Briss. orn. PI. Enl. 600 



/.3. 

 Supercilious Humming-Bird. Lath. syn. 



THIS species is readily distinguished from all 

 others yet known by the great length of its bill, 

 and its strongly cuneated tail. The total length 

 of the bird is about seven inches: the bill near an 

 inch and three quarters: colour of the crown of the 

 head, and upper parts of the bird gilded olive; the 

 wings brown, and the tail gilded greenish-brown, 

 the side feathers tipped with pale rufous, and the 

 two middle feathers, which are an inch longer 

 than the rest, and of a sharpened form, white at 

 the extended tips : the under parts of the bird are 

 pale grey-brown, with a dusky stripe down the 

 throat and on each side the head, from the bill to 

 the eye, over which is a whitish streak. The 

 female differs in being of a pale rufous-grey be- 

 neath; in having a shorter bill in proportion, with 

 the lower mandible whitish, and the tail of the 



