746 HUMMING-BIRD. 



are narrow, and long, forming a creft; fome of them being three 

 quarters of an inch in length : wing coverts and quills blue: tail 

 Ted, like the body, and the two middle feathers much exceed the 

 others in length : legs black. 

 Tlagi. Inhabits Mexico. 



2. Trochilus pella, Lin. Syft.'i. p. 189. N* 2. 



TOPAZ x, e Colibri rouge » longue queue de Surinam, Brif. or*:, iii. p. 690. N° if • 



Le Colibri topaze, Buf. eif. vi. p. 46. 



■ de Cayenne, dit le topaz, PI. enl. 599. 1, 



Long-tailed red Humming-bird, Edia. i. t. 32. 

 Grand Colibri, Ferm. Defer. d$ Surinam, ii. p. 195. 



'■Description. HPHIS bird is not much inferior to a Wren in fize : the length 

 to the end of the tail about fix inches, but if the two middle 

 feathers are taken in, two inches longer. The bill is bent, four- 

 teen lines in length*, and black: the head, and hind part of the 

 neck, are black ; which, palling forwards to the breaft, forms there 

 a black crefcent : the chin, and fore part of the neck, above the 

 crefcent, are of the colour of poliihed goldj or rather that of a Topaz, 

 appearing in fome lights green : the breaft is of a rofe-colour f : 

 back and wing coverts orange red : quills dull purple : rump 

 and tail coverts green-gold : the tail has the two middle feathers 

 much longer than-the others ; thefe are of the fame colour with 

 the quills j but the reft of the tail feathers are reddifh orange : 

 the legs are black. 



* Fermiti fays two inches 



f Buffou fays, deep purple, wich the back and neck-. 



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