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THE RUFF-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill flcnder and weak ; in fome ftrait, in others incurvated. 



Nostrils minute. 



Tongue very long, formed; of two conjoined cylindric tubes -, miiTilc. 



Toes three forward, one backward. 



Tail confifting of ten feathers^ 



Pennant-^ 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Strait-billed brown Humming-Bird, with ferruginous creft, gold-green throar,, 

 and elongated neck-feathers on each fide. 



Tufted-necked Humm,ing-bird,, 

 L'Oifcau-mouche, dit le Hupecol de Cayenne. 



Lath. Synops. f. 

 PI. Enl. 640. /. 2' 



THE brilliant and lively race of Humming- Birds, fo remarkable at once 

 for their beautiful colours and diminutive fize, are the peculiar natives 

 of the American continent, and, with very few exceptions, are principally found 

 in the hotted parts of America. Their vivacity, Iwiftnefs, and fingular ap- 

 pearance unite in rendering them the admiradon of mankind ; while their 

 colours are fo radiant, that it is not by comparing them with the analogous 

 hues of other birds that we are enabled to explain with propriety their peculiar 

 appearance, but by the more exalted brilliancy of polilhed metals and precious 



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