HUMMING-BIRD. ?S3 



Le Grenat, £»/. eif. v-i. p. 4-8. 9- 



' Var. A. 



T^HE length of this bird is five inches. The bill is ten or Description, 



twelve lines long : the cheeks juft beneath the eye, the fides 

 and lower part of the neck, and the throat as far as the breaft, are 

 of a fine bright garnet-colour : the upper part of the head, the 

 back, as well as the under parts of the body, are of a velvety 

 black : the wings and tail are of the fame colour, but gilded with 

 green glofs. This is the whole of Buffon's defcriptionj from 

 which I have ventured to place it as a variety, arifing eith tr fro 

 age or fex. 



Trochilus jugularis, Liu. Syjl. i. p. 190. N° 7. I0 _ 



Le Colibria gorge carmin, Buf. oif, vi. p. 56. RED- 



Red-breafted Humming-bird, Ednxj. glean, t. 266. f. I. BREASTED 



H. B. 



HpHIS fpecies is four inches and a half long. The bill is thir- Description. 



teen lines in length, and pretty much curved, not unlike that 

 of a Creeper, and black: the top of the head, hind part of the 

 neck, the telly, thighs, and tail, of a dufky brown or black ; the 

 edges of the feathers a little fringed with blue : the fides of the 

 head, and the throat as far as the breaft, fine red or carmine, and 

 bright as a ruby : the wings are of a fine dark green, with a glofs 

 like that of polifhed gold ; infide green : the rump, and upper and 

 under tail coverts, fine blue : legs fhort and blackifh. 



This is an inhabitant of Surinam. Place. 



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