754- 



H U M M I N G - B " I R D». 



11. 



VIOLET- 

 TAILED 

 H. B. 



Description. 



PtAeEi 



Be Colibri a queue violette, Buf. oif. vi. p. 55. 

 — de Cayenne, PL enl. 671. f. 2. 



HE length of this bird is fix inches j that of the bill fixteen- 

 lines, and bent. The fides of the throat are white; down the 

 middle it is brown mixed with green : the fides are the fame : 

 the breaft and belly white ; the quills of a violet brown *": all the 

 upper parts of the body, placed in an oppofite view, appear 

 richly gilded, and, viewed on one fide, look green : the four mid- 

 dle feathers of the tail are of a deep violet, gloried with a gilded 

 yellow ; the fix outer ones are violet alfo, but have the tips, and: 

 part of the inner margins, white : legs dufky. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



12. 



■*- BLACK- 



BELLIED 



H. B. 



Trochilus holofericeus, Lin. Syft. i. p.- 191. N° 11. 



Le Colibri du Mexique, Brif. orn. iii. p. 6j6. N° 7. t. 35. f. 2; 



Le Colibri vert & noir, Buf. oif. vi. p. 53. 



Black-bellied green Humming-bird, Ediv.\. t. 36. 



Black-bellied American Humming-bird, Bancroft Guian. p. 169. 



Description. .T ENGTH four inches and a quarter. Bill black, rather more 

 than an inch in length : the head, neck, and upper parts of. 

 the body, are green gold, with a glofs of copper : the bread, 

 belly, fides, and thighs, fhining black, with a reddifh tinge :. 

 acrofs the breaft is a tranfverfe band of blue, and on the lower 

 part of the belly another lefier one of white : the tail is deep 



* The quills of moll of the Humming-birds feem to be nearly of this 

 colour. 



2 black,, 



