HUMMING-BIRD.- 



other fex: all the under parts from the chin to the vent white: 

 clofe to the green, the white on each fide of the neck is marbled 

 with green, as if nature did not choofe that the different colours 

 fhould be too abruptly divided : the tail is green, but without the 

 long feathers ; and the tips of all but the two middle ones are 

 white nearly halfway from the tip. 



This inhabits Jamaica, Guiana, and the fouth parts of America. 

 Alhin fays, he found it on its neft, which was made of cotton, 

 but defcribes it as a fmall fpecies. 



Both Buffon and Brijfon have ranked this and the next with the 

 Jlrait-bilkd birds j but Linnxus and Klein with the crooked ones : 

 on examination, there will be found a curvature, juft enough to 

 juftify this divifion in fentiment. 



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Places.- 



Le Colibri a longue queue du Mexique, Brif. orn. iii. p. 688. N" 14. 



Le Brin bleu, Buf. cif. vi. p. 51. 



Avis, Yayauquitototl * di&a, Seba, i. p. 84. t. 51. f. 7. 



npHIS is a large fpecies, being compared by Brijfon almoft to the 

 fize of a Fig- eaten - : length eight inches and a quarter. The 

 bill in length is an inch and a quarter, and of a yellowifh colour: 

 the fore part of the head, about the eyes, the throat, and fore part 

 of the neck, are blue : the upper parts, from the nape to the vent, 

 are green, but deepeft on the back : from the bread to the vent 

 the colour is cinereous grey : the two middle feathers of the tail 

 are of a fine blue colour, and longer than the fide ones by two 



BLUE-TAILED 

 H. B. 



Description. 



* This is quoted by Brijfon, and may be the bird meant by Seba ; but Buffon 

 obferves, that Yayauquitototl is alfo the name of a bird mentioned by Hernandez, 

 as big as a Starling. 



inches 



