100 RUFF-NECKED OR NOOTKA HUMMING-BIRD. 



much greater length, and of a richer and more bril- 

 liant green. But of all the birds belonging to this 

 splendid little group, one which M. Lesson has de- 

 dicated to Mr Gould of London, is the most ex- 

 quisitely beautiful. We have represented it on the 

 next plate. 



