HUMMING-BIRD. 



75* 



L'Oifeau-mouche violet a queue fourchue de la Jamaique, Br!/, orn. iii. 



p. 732. N° 20. t. 37. f. 6 *. 

 L'Oifeau-mouche violet a queue fourchue, Buf. oif. vi. p. 37. 



*"pHE whole length of this fpecies is four inches, of which the 

 tail is an inch and a half. The bill is black, and very little 

 curved : the top of the head, and the neck, are of a gilded-green 

 colour : the back and breaft glofly violet blue : the throat, and 

 ■lower part of the back, gilded green : the lefler wing coverts vio- 

 let ; the greater green gold : quills black, as are the tail feathers $ 

 the two outer ones longer than the others, rendering the tail 

 forked, but the longeft feather is only one inch and a half in length : 

 legs and claws blackifh. 



Inhabits Jamaica, Brafil, and Cayenne-* 



LESSER 



FORK-TAILED- 



H. 3. 



Dssciuptio,n.- 



'LAC£J. 



L'Oifeau-mouche a queue fourchue de Cayenne, Brif. orn, iii. p. 726. N* 17. 



t. 36. f. 9. 

 L'Oifeau-mouche a longue queue couleur d'acier bruni, Buf. oif. vi. p. 36. 

 'Guainumbi minor Cauda longiff. &c. Rati Syn. p. 83. N° 3. p. 187-. 



N° 41. — Will. orn. p. 231. N° 3. — Sloanejam. p. 309. N° 41. 



T ENGTH of the bird fix inches. Bill eleven lines long, black, 



and fcarcely bent: the head, throat, and neck, of a violet 



blue : general colour of the plumage glofly green gold : on the. 



• I have omitted here the references to Ray, Willughby, and Shane, as I can- 

 not reconcile them at all ; they feem to fuit the next fpecies better. Linmeus 

 has thought right to unite this to the laft ; but fion the difference of colour, as 

 well as fize, it appears to me ckarly right to keep them feparate. 



lower 



8. 



CAYENNE 



FORK-TAILED 



H. B. 



Description. 



