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CRIMSON-HEADED BLUE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus cyaneus. T. curvirostris coccineo-serkeus, dorso ccerulco, 



alis nigris. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Velvet-crimson Humming-Bird, with blue back, and black 



wings. 

 Avicula Mexicana cyaneo colore venustissima. Seb. I. p. 102* 



t. 65. f. 3. 



Trochilus venustissimus. Lin. GmeL 

 Le Colibri bleu. Eu/. ois. 

 Crimson-headed blue Humming-Bird. Lath. syn. 



DESCRIBED by Du Tertre in his History of the 

 Antilles: size half that of a Wren: head, throat, 

 and under parts, as far as the middle of the belly, 

 velvet-crimson with varying glosses : back blue : 

 wings black. Seba figures a bird supposed to be 

 the same with this, but measuring, according to 

 the figure, about five inches in length: the crown 

 of the head, and under parts scarlet, the back 

 black, and the wings blue : the bill long, whitish, 

 and pretty much curved. According to Seba it is 

 a native of Mexico. 



Monsr. Viellot, in the work entitled Nowoeau, 

 Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, seems inclined 

 to think the bird described by Du Tertre to be no 

 other than the Trochilus jugularis or Red-Breasted 

 Humming-Bird, but this supposition by no means 

 agrees with the colour of the head in that species. 



