HUMMING-BIRD. 747 



The female is faid to differ in having no elongated feathers in Femam-. 

 the tail ; the gilded topaz colour of the throat too is wanting,* 

 being only marked with a flight trace of red : and inflead of the 

 fine brilliant purple and rufous plumage of the male, that of the 

 female is almoft wholly of a gilded green :. the legs are white in, 

 both fexes. 



Inhabits Surinam*- Ela<:e„- 



Trochilus fuperciliofus, Lin. Syfi. i. 189. N° 3. _* 



Le Colibri a longue queue de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iii. p. 686, N° 13. SUPERCILIOUS 



t. 35- f- 5- H> B * 



Le Brin blanc, Buf. oif. vi. p. 49. 



Colibri a longue queue de Cayenne, PI. enl. 600. f. 3 *. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



^T^HE bill of this fpecies is much bent, an inch and a half or Desc*hptionv 



more in length, being out of proportion to the body, the 

 whole length of the bird, from bill to tail, being lefs than fix 

 inches-: the plumage above is brown, with a gilded glofs : over 

 each eye is a whitifh ftripe : the wing coverts are brown: the 

 quills the fame, but inclining to violet : the under parts of the 

 body rufous white : the two middle feathers of the tail exceed the 

 others in length above an inch ; the others are not of equal lengths, 

 thofe neareft the middle being much longer than the outer ones, 

 which are very fhort ; the two middle ones are half gilded brown 

 the end half white ; the others have likewife their lowefl half 



* This figure may deceive : the two middle tail feathers have the ends coloured' 

 brown, inflead of white ; and the reft cf the tail feathers- are all of equal lengthsj,. 

 whereas they ihould be all unequal. 



5:C 2: gilded' 



