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CRESTED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus cristatus. T. aureo-viridis subtus cincrtus, crista aureo- 



ccerulea acuminata, remigibus caudaque violaceis. 

 Gold-green Humming-Bird, cinereous beneath, with golden-blue 



pointed crest, and violet quill-feathers and tail. 

 Trochilus cristatus. T. rectirostris viridis, alis fusds, abdomine 



fusco-tinereo, crista ccerulescente, tibiis pennatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Lath. ind. orn. 



Crested green Humming-Bird. Edw. pL 37* Lath. syn. 

 L'Oiseau-mouche hupe. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 22?. /. i. Viell. 



pi. 47. 48. 



THE Crested Humming-Bird seems to have been 

 first described by Edwards, who, in the thirty- 

 seventh plate of his excellent work, has given a 

 good figure both of the bird and its nest. The 

 total length of the bird is three inches. " The 

 bill, says Edwards, is slender, sharp-pointed, and 

 not so long as in most of this kind, of a black 

 colour, and very little bowed downward : the top 

 of the head, from the bill to the hinder part, which 

 ends in a crest, is first green, and toward the hinder 

 part dark blue : both these colours shine with a 

 lustre far exceeding the brightest polished metals, 

 the green part especially, which is the lightest in 

 some lights, changes from green to gold-colour, so 

 beautiful as not to be expressed by colours, or 

 hardly conceived in the absence of the object: the 

 feathers of the upper part of the body and wings 

 are dark green intermixed with gold-colour : just 

 beneath the bill is a spot of dirty white: the breast 



