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CRESTED BROWN HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus pileatus. T.fuscus, crista cceruko-nitentc acuminata. 

 Brown Humming- Bird, with glossy-blue pointed crest. 

 Trochilus pileatus. T. rectirostris pallide fuscus, remigibus rec- 



tricibusque saturatioribus, crista cceruka spkndidissima. Lath. 



ind. orn. 

 Trochilus puniceus. T. pallide fuscus, crista ccerulea. Lin, 



Gmel 



L'Oiseau-mouche a huppe bleu. Viell. pi. 63. 

 Crested brown Humming-Bird. Lath. syn. 



THIS, which resembles the preceding in size 

 and habit, differs in being entirely of a fine and 

 rather pale brown colour, the wings and tail 

 rather deeper, and the throat rather lighter than 

 the other parts: the crest is similar in shape and 

 size to that of the immediately preceding bird, 

 and is of a fine bright or glossy blue colour. This 

 species, if such it really be, and not a mere variety 

 of the preceding, is called in the]Gmelinian edition 

 of the Systema Naturae by the name of Trochilus 

 puniceuS) but why a name so little expressive of 

 the true colour should have been fixed upon it is 

 not easy to conceive. 



