74* HUMMING-BIRD. 



Place. 



gilded brown, then black, with the ends brown, edged with white : 

 legs and claws brown. 

 . Inhabits Cayenne. 



+• Trochilus polytmus, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 180. N c 4.. 



' P A PPFTJ L'Oifeau-mouche a tefte noire, & queue fourchue, .fir//! orn. iii. p. 729. N° 19. 



\{. B. L'Oifeau-mouche a longue queue noire, Buf. oif. vi. p. 39. 



Long-tailed Kumming-bird, Albin. iii. pi. 49. 



Long-tailed black-cap Humming-bird, Ediv. i. 34,— 2?«»«\ Guian.p. 169. 

 Br. Muf. Leu. Muf. 



Description.. / "T"*HE whole length of this bird, taking in the long tail feathers, 

 is above nine inches and a half. The bill is ten lines in 

 length, very little bent, in colour yellow, with a black tip : irides 

 yellow* : the top of the head, and a little way on the neck be- 

 hind, black : the upper parts in general are of a yellowifh green : 

 the under parts of a glofTy blueifh green : edge of the wing 

 white : wing coverts violet brown ; quills the fame, the 

 margin of the firfl white : the tail feathers are blackifh, and very 

 unequal in length j the two outer ones being fourteen lines long, 

 the two next feven inches, the next to thefe only one inch, and 

 the two middle ones only half an inch ; thefe different lengths 

 making the tail appear forked : the legs are black. 

 F*male. I do not find an author who has mentioned the female j but in 



the fame cafe with one of thefe birds, at Leicejler-houfe, is one fent 

 for the mate of this fp'ecies : the fize of the bird, and the bill, ex- 

 actly the fame: the bafe of the under mandible white half way j 

 the reft, and upper, black : the crown is of a dufky brown : the 

 upper parts of the body are of the fame kind of green as in the 



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other 



