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THE TUFTED-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus ornatus LINN^US ? 



PLATE XV. ADULT MALE. 



^L Hupp6-col, Buffon^ Planches Enluminze*, 640 Tufted. 



necked Humming-bird, Latham's General History of Birds, 

 vol. iv. p. 348 Le Huppd-col, Ornismya ornata, Lesson, 

 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-mouches, pi. xli. 



AMONG the curious forms assumed by the plumage 

 of the humming-birds, we have already seen various 

 feathered excrescences, as it were, issuing from differ- 

 ent parts of the body, and in none are they so singu- 

 lar as in the tribe which our present species and one 

 or two following represent. They are called by the 

 French, Coquets ; and Lesson has formed from them 

 a genus, Lophornis, including this with the three fol- 

 lowing and some other species. - In this bird, in addi- 

 tion to an ample crest of clear reddish chestnut upon 

 the head, the sides of the neck are adorned with tufts 

 of narrow feathers, almost an inch in length. They 

 are composed of from ten to twenty plumes, of the 

 same colour with the crest, and are terminated with 



