HUMMING-BIRD. 



lower part of the belly is a white fpot : the tail is forked ; the 

 two outer feathers are three inches and three-quarters long, and 

 the middle ones an inch and three quarters only ; the colour of it 

 black blue, with a glofs of polifhed fteel : the legs are black- 

 Place, Inhabits Cayenne, Buffon obferves, that this defcription beft 



fiiits that of Marcgrave, which Brijfon has put down as fynony- 

 mous with the laft mentioned ; and not only corrects that error, 

 but likewife that of Ray and Willughby, dependent on Marcgrave's 

 authority. 



As thefe four have the bills curved, though in a very fmall de- 

 gree, I place them in this divifion, rather than rank them with 

 thofe whofe bills are abfolutely ftrait. 



4- GARNET- 

 THROATED 



H. B. 

 Pl. XXXIV. 



.Description. 



Female. 



[ENGTH four inches and a quarter. Bill an inch long, bent, 

 and black : head, neck, back, and tail, very dark green, ap- 

 pearing blackifh in fome lights, and glofly green in others : wing 

 and upper tail coverts glofly green : from the chin to the breaffc 

 the feathers are of a fine deep garnei-colour, appearing very glofly 

 in fome directions : the belly, thighs-, and vent, black, with a 

 very faint greenifh glofs : legs black. 



The female, or what was given to me as fuch, has the upper 

 parts of the body like the other : from the chin to the breaft green 

 gold, inftead of glofly garnet-colour : the belly, thighs, and vent, 

 dufky black : the -quills dufky : tail and legs black. 



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