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LITTLE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus exilis. T. cvrvirostris viridi-fuscus, rubro nitens, capite 

 crlsta viridi-nitente, apice aurato, remigibus caudaque nigris. 

 Lath. ind. orn. ,-.. m \. 



Brownish -green Humming-Bird, with a gloss of red, glossy-green 

 crest with gilt tip, and black wings and tail. 



Little Humming-Bird. Lath.syn. 



Hunmiing-Bird of a black colour. Bancr. Guiana. 



THE smallest of the curve-billed division: de- 

 scribed in Bancroft's History of Guiana: length 

 only an inch and half: colour greenish brown, 

 with a bright red or coppery gloss : head furnished 

 with a small tuft, green at the base, but of a bril- 

 liant gold-colour at the top : quills and tail of a 

 fine black. Native of Guiana. 



Qu. whether both this and the immediately pre- 

 ceding, though ranked by Dr. Latham in the curve- 

 billed division of the genus, are any thing more 

 than varieties of the Trochilus cristatus ?. In such 

 very small species describers not professedly orni- 

 thological might easily overlook the exact form of 

 the bill, and other minute particulars, and the de- 

 scriptions given by Dr. Bancroft seem only in- 

 tended as general notices of the most remarkable 

 subjects which he had observed during his resi- 

 dence in Guiana. 



