120 SUPERB HUMMING-BIRD. 



brownish-green, the others dull blue, with white tips. 

 It inhabits Brazil. 



There is yet a fourth species, which will most na- 

 turally be introduced here, though it differs in the 

 form of the tail : it is the 



SUPERB HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus superlus SHAW. 



Superb Humming-bird ; Trochilus superbus, Shaw, Natu- 

 ralist's Miscellany, vol. xii. pi. 517 Zoology, vol. viii. 



p. 323. Oiseau-mouche superbe, Temminck, Planches 

 Coloriees,299 Oiseau-mouche Corinne, Lesson, Histoire 

 Naturelle des Oiseaux-mouches, pi. ii. 



THIS splendid species was first noticed and de- 

 scribed by Dr Shaw : afterwards it was figured by 

 Temminck ; and again it is represented by Lesson, 

 who has applied to it the name of " Corinne," for 

 what reason he does not explain. The description 

 of its discoverer is as follows : " It is unquestion- 

 ably one of the finest of this brilliant race. Its 

 length is about four inches and a quarter ; the bill 

 being long in proportion to the bird, straight and 

 black: the crown of the head bright sky- blue; from 

 the bill to the head, on each side, a moderately broad 

 black stripe, and beneath this a white stripe : throat 

 and upper part of the breast of a most brilliant scar- 

 let, the feathers full, or somewhat projecting; re- 

 mainder of the body, both above and below, golden- 



