286 ADMIRABLE HUMMING-BIRD. 



are a few white feathers mixt : the legs are black : 

 the wings blackish: in the tail almost an inch and 

 half long, handsome and broad, consisting of some 

 feathers of the same rare colour with the rest 

 of the body, some of a mixt colour of green and 

 golden, and white about the edges, some half 

 white, half green, shining with golden, that is, on 

 one side the shaft white, on the other green." 



This species seems to admit of much variation 

 as to the splendor of its colours : Dr. Latham de- 

 scribes his specimen in the following manner. 

 " This, I should think, is one of the smallest of the 

 crooked-billed Humming-Birds, being only two 

 inches ten lines in length : the bill is eleven lines 

 long, and the tail thirteen : the upper mandible 

 black, the lower white : the colour of the plumage 

 is wholly of a greenish violet, except the wings, 

 which are brown, and on the lower part of the 

 belly is a spot of white : the two middle tail-fea- 

 thers are of a bright green-gold, with a copper 

 gloss, and the others the same, but edged with 

 white, and the outer one is entirely white on the 

 outer web: legs and claws black." 



This species is a native of Brasil and several 

 other regions of South America. 



