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TOPAZ-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus chrysurus. T. liridi-aurtus, gula cinnamomea, remigibus 



fuscis, cauda topazinu. 



Gold-green Humming-Bird, with cinnamon throat, brown quill- 

 leathers, and topazine tail. 

 Bec-fleur a queue couleur de topaze. Azara Par. 



LENGTH four inches : Native of Paraguay. 



RED-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Colubris. T. triuncialis aurco-viridit, subtus albus guia 



aureo-rubra, alls caudaque purpureo-fuscis. 

 Gold-green Humming-Bird, about three inches in length, beneath 



white with gold-red throat, and purple-brown wings and tail. 

 Trochilus Colubris. T. reclirostris viridi-aureus, rectricibus m- 



gris ; lateralibus tribus ferrvgineis apice albis, gula Jiammea, 



Lin. Syst. Naf. Lath. ind. orn. 



l\ed-throated Humming-Bird. Edw. pi. 38. Latli. syn, 

 Humming-Bird. Catesb. Carol. 1. pi. 65. 

 Le Rubis. Buff. ois. Viell. pi. 31.32. 33 . 



THIS most beautiful species usually measures 

 about three inches and a third from the tip of the 

 bill to that of the tail : the bill is black, and 

 three quarters of an inch long : the crown, upper 

 part of the neck, back, and coverts of the wings 

 are of a most resplendent and variable green and 

 gold colour : the chin arid throat of a rich shining 

 scarlet, changing, according to the direction of 



