LI. 

 RUFFED AND TUFTED HUMMING-BIRDS. 



HAVE not told you half the varieties met 

 with in the costume of the beautiful 

 birds. 



There is an ornament worn by a Hum- 

 ming-Bird that lives in the forests of Brazil. This 

 bird has two thick tufts of deep indigo blue, spring- 

 ing from under the eyes and forming a kind of 

 ruff. Each tuft is tipped with yellow, which con- 

 trasts with the intense blue of the breast. On the 

 forehead the feathers look like scales, and are of a 

 bright green. And there is a band of deep vel- 

 vety black running in a line from eye to eye. The 

 throat and part of the neck are of a shining green; 



