tU . RED -THROATED HONEYSUCKEU. 



XV. H O N E Y S U C K E R. Gm. Birdi, XXIX *-_ 



176. ReD'p Pa/ler Mufcatus, Gefner, anj. 65J. 



.THROATED. Ouriffia five Tomineio, Chif. Exot. (^^. 



Guainumbi Prima, (fcem.) Marcgrave, 196. 



Colibry, Viameliii, or Rifing Bird, Joffelyri's <vay. 100. — 7iafitks,'6, — Lev. Mas. 



Trochilus Colubris, Lin. Syft. 191. — Latham, u 769. 



1,'Oyfeau Mouchc a rouge gorge, Brijfon, iii. 716. 



Humming Bird, Catejly, i. 65. — Law/on, 146. — 'Edw. 38. 



ie Jlubis, De Buffo«, vi. 13. 



With a black bill, three quarters of an incli long : crownj 

 upper part of the neck, back, and coverts of the wings, of a 

 moft refplendent variable green and gold : chin and throat of a fhin- 

 ing rich fcarlet, changing, as oppofed to the light, from gold to a 

 full black i thefe feathers lie nearly as conapaftly as fcales : breaft and 

 belly white ; the fides green : middle feathers of the tail green ; the 

 exterior purple. 



The chin, throat, and whole under fide, of the female, is white : 

 the exterior feathers of the tail tipt with white. 

 Manns*s, This bird, fo admirable for its minutenefs, vaft fwiftrefs of flight, 



food, and elegance of form and colors, gave rife to numbers of ro- 

 mantic tales. They were not the Europeans alone, who were ftruck 

 with its great beauty ; the natives oi America., to whom it was fo fa- 

 miliar, were afredled with its gemmeous appearance, and befl;owed 

 ■on it titles expreflive of its refplendent colors. Some nations called 

 it Otirijfia, ahd Guaracyaha, or the Sun-beam ; others, Gimraeygahat 

 or Hairs of the Sunj others again named it Huitzitzil, or Vicililin, 



* This genus may be divided into thofe with ftrait and thofe with incSurvated bills S 

 Ijut there being none of the laft in Nirtb Amsrka, the diftinftion is omitted^ 



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