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EKEBERG’S 
A.B. 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLacE. 
2) 
CHILI 
H. B. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
PLACE: 
HUMMING BIRD. 
Genus XXX. HUMMING BIRD. 
N°1. Ekeberg’s H. B. N° 5. Orange-faced H. B. 
2. Chili H. B. 6. Blue-headed H. B. 
3. Mango H. B. 7. Great H. B. 
4. Gilt-crefted H. B. 
* WitTH curved BILis. 
Trockilus capenfis, Ind. Orz.1. p. 303. 6.—Lin. Mantis. 1771. p. 525. 
SIZE ofa Swaliow: general colour green gold: quills black; the 
wing coverts neareft to them margined with glofly blue: tail 
feathers even at the end, except the two middle ones, which are three 
times the leneth of the others; colour of them all black, margined at. 
the bafe with gloffy green: vent black, marked with. fhining blue » 
{pots. 
This 1s faid to inhabit the Cape of Good Hope, for which we have 
the authority of M. Ekeberg ; at has however never fallen to our lot 
to meet with any one of the genus which came from that place. 
Trochilus-galeritus, Jd. Orn. i. p. 304. 10.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 127, 2. 
HIS fpecies is rather lefs than a Wren: the bill is fomewhat 
bent: the general colour of the plumage green gold: head 
crefted; the creft radiated with purple and gold: the under parts of 
the body are fire colour: quills and tail brown, varied with gold. 
Inhabits Chik. 
