RUFF-NECKED OR NOOTKA HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus rufus GMELIX. 

 PLATE XI. 



Trochilus rufus, Gmelin, edition of Systema Natures of Lin- 

 nceus. RuiF-Necked Humming-Bird, Latham, General 

 History of Birds, vol. iv. p. 350 Ruff-Necked Honey- 

 Sucker, Pennant, Arctic Zoology, vol. ii. p. 177 Selas- 

 phorus rufus, Nootka Humming-Bird, Swainson, Nor- 

 thern Zoology, vol. ii. p. 324. Lesson, Histoire Naturelle 

 des Oiseaux-mouches, pis. Ixvi and Ixvii, and Supple- 

 ment, xi. xii. and xiii. 



THE discovery of this splendid species is due to 

 our great navigator Captain Cook, while for its first 

 description we are indebted to the now venerable or- 

 nithologist of our present day. It is an inhabitant of 

 the inhospitable climate of Nootka Sound, but ranges 

 over a considerable extent, having been received from 

 Real del Monte by Mr Swainson. 



Captain Cook made the following observations, 

 when mentioning this beautiful species. 



" There are also Humming- Birds, which yet seem 

 to differ from the numerous sorts of this delicate ani- 

 mal already known, unless they be a mere variety of 

 the Trochilus colubris of Linnaeus. These, perhaps, 

 inhabit more to the southward, and spread northward 



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