re = 
RUFF-NECKED HUMMING BIRD. 557 
base, broad and convex toward the end, the sides convex, the edges 
overlapping, the tip acuminate ; lower mandible with the angle very 
long and extremely narrow, the dorsal line straight, the edges erect, 
the tip acuminate. Nostrils basal, linear. 
Head of ordinary size, oblong; neck short; body slender. Feet 
very small; tarsus very short, feathered more than half-way down, toes 
small; the lateral equal, the middle toe not much longer, the hind toe 
a little shorter than the lateral, anterior toes united at the base ; claws 
rather long, arched, compressed, laterally grooved, very acute. 
Plumage soft and blended; feathers on the throat, fore part and 
sides of the neck oblong-obovate, with the filaments towards the end 
thickened and flattened, with metallic gloss, those on the sides of the 
neck elongated and erectile. Wings rather short, extremely narrow, 
faleate, pointed; the primaries rapidly graduated, the second being 
longest, but only slightly longer than the first ; these two quills taper 
to a point; the rest are broader, and gradually become less pointed ; 
the secondaries are extremely short, and only five in number. ‘Tail 
rather long, broad, graduated, the lateral feathers four and a half 
twelfths of an inch shorter than the central; the latter are extremely 
broad, measuring four and a half twelfths across, and the rest gradually 
diminish to the lateral, which are very narrow ; all obtusely pointed. 
Bill brownish-black ; toes brown, claws dusky. The general colour 
of the upper parts is bright cinnamon or reddish-orange ; the head 
bronzed green, the wings dusky, the coverts glossed with green, the 
primaries with purplish ; each of the tail-feathers has a narrow longi- 
tudinal lanceolate median streak toward the end. The loral space, a 
narrow band over the eye, another beneath it, and the auriculars are 
reddish-orange ; the scale-like feathers of the throat and sides of the 
neck are splendent fire-red, purplish-red, yellowish-red, greenish-yel- 
low or yellowish-green, according to the light in which they are viewed ; 
behind them, on the lower part of the neck, is a broad band of reddish- 
white ; the rest of the lower parts are like the upper, the abdomen in- 
clining to white. 
Length to end of tail 37% inches ; bill along the ridge #2, along the 
edge of lower mandible # ; wing from flexure 1/74 ; tail 124 ; tarsus 74 ; 
; ly 0g tee it % | 1 
hind toe 74, its claw 34; middle toe 74, its claw 33. 
Adult Female. Plate CCCLXXIX. Fig. 3. 
