7£o HUMMING-BIRD. 



inches four lines ; the others fine green, and lefTen by degrees 

 outwardly to the lafb, which is very fhort : the legs are yellow. 

 Elace. Inhabits Mexico*. 



6. Trochilus forficatus, Lin. Syji. i.p. 190. N a J. 



u i> L'Oifeau-mouche a. queue fourchue de la Jamaique, Brif. orn, ill. p. 728. 



N° 18. 

 L'Oifeau-mouche a longue queue, or, vert & bleu, Buf. oif. vi. p. 38. 

 Long-tailed green Humming-bird, Ediu. i. t. 33,.— Brown Jam. p. 475. 



Bescrwtiok. r T , OTAL length feven inches two lines. The bill black, very 

 little bent, and three quarters of an inch in length r top of 

 the head blue : the reft of the plumage, for the mofl part, of 

 a fplendid green; but the bottom of the belly, under tail coverts,, 

 and the fides at the bafe,. are white : the thighs are brown : quills 

 violet brown, but the three nearefl the body green gold : tail green 

 gold, with a glofs of blue; the tail is forked, but not regularly ; 

 the two outer feathers are longer than the next by near three 

 inches ; the two middle ones only ten lines long ; the others 

 lengthening by degrees as they approach outwards : the legs are 

 black. 



Inhabits Jamaica. The long feathers of the tail, both in this 

 and the laft, are fupported at the bafe, both above and beneath? 

 by a ftiff feather* 



FtACE. 



E'Oifeau. 



