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THE SUPERCILIOUS HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus superciliosus. LINN^US. 

 PLATES XXVI and XXVII. 



Supercilious Humming-Bird, Shaw, General Zoology, v'm. 

 p. 284. Latham's General History, iv. p. 293. Le Brin 

 blanc, Euffon. Le Colibri a brin blanc, Lesson* Histoire 

 Naturelle des Colibris, PI. vi. Male ; PL vii. Female. 



LESSON makes of these birds his " VIII. Race, 

 les Brins blancs," and separates them from the form 

 of T. kirsutus, which immediately precedes them. 

 By Mr Swainson they are united under his group 

 Phaethornus, constituting his third division among the 

 Trochilidce. As a group we do not see how they can 

 he separated, and even if an after division should be 

 attempted, according to Lesson's characters the fe- 

 male of the one would enter into a different section. 

 Boie, again, seems to have made his genus Glaucis 

 from them, and it is under either that or Mr Swain- 

 son's title that they should now stand ; that gentle- 

 man is of opinion that it is by these that the Hum- 

 ming- Birds will unite with the Promeropidse. We 

 shall proceed to describe what seems to be known as 

 distinct species among them. 



The bill of the Supercilious Humming-Bird is long 

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