GREEN AND BLUE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Buffon under the name of Olseau-mouche ci gorge 

 tachetee, and which, like many other specimens, 

 has suffered greatly by the fumigations of sulphur 

 which were formerly practised in that Museum as 

 a preservative from insects, but which, as Monsr. 

 Viellot very properly observes, have done more 

 injury to the plumage of the birds than they would 

 have suffered from the ravages of the insects 

 themselves. 



GREEN AND BLUE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Ourissia. T. aureo-viridis, dorso pectore abdomineque 



cceruleis, remigibusfuscis, cauda subttqualifusco-aurea. 

 Gold-green Humming-Bird, with blue back, breast, and belly, 



brown quill-feathers, and golden-brown tail. 

 Trochilus Ourissia. T. rectirostris viridi-aitratus, rectricibus 



subcequalibus fuscv-aureis, remigibus nigris, abdomine caruho. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Mellisuga Surinamensis pectore cseruleo. Briss. av. 3. p. 71 1 . 

 L'Emeraude-amethyste. Buff, ois, 

 Oiseau-mouche a poitrine bleue. PI. Enl. 227. f. 3. 

 Green and blue Humming-Bird. Ediv.pl. 35. f. 2. Lath. syn. 



THE American word Ourissia, signifying a sun- 

 beam, is applied by some of the earlier writers to 

 certain species of Humming-Birds, on account of 

 the splendor of their colours. Linnaeus applies 

 the name to the Green and Blue Humming-Bird of 

 Edwards, a middle-sized species, measuring nearly 

 four inches in total length, and of a coppery green- 

 gold colour, the upper part of the back, the breast, 

 and belly fine deep blue, with a slight golden gloss: 



