

UAH-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Mrhich are gold-green, is violet-purple, very glossy 

 on the throat and breast, but verging to velvet- 

 black on the other parts : the gold-green colour 

 of the tail, in some particular lights, appear^ 

 black. Native of Cayenne. 



BAR-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus sparganurus. T. aureo-viridis, gttla smaragdina, cauda, 

 forficata nigra, rectricib us fascia aureo-phoenicea. 



Gold-green Humming-Bird, with emerald throat, and black 

 forked tail with a gold-crimson bar across the feathers. 



A MOST beautiful species: length nearly eight 

 inches: colour green-gold, but not very bright> 

 except on the throat, which is of a golden emerald- 

 colour : wings brownish or dusky : tail long, and 

 strongly forked, the two exterior feathers mea- 

 suring about four inches and a half in length, the 

 rest gradually shortening: colour velvet-black, 

 each feather crossed by a broad gold-crimson bar 

 somewhat beyond the middle * : ends of the fea- 

 thers rounded : bill and legs black. Described 

 from an elegant specimen in Mr. Bullock's Mu- 

 seum, and said to be a native of Peru. 



* In the exterior feather on each side the crimson bar is con- 

 siderably wider than in the rest. 



