75 s 



HUMMING-BIRD. 



Female. 



green, which grows broader on the fore part of the neck : on the 

 bread is a black fpot : the fides of the throat are rufous, mixed 

 with white; and the belly pure white: the tail beneath has the 

 fame violet, white, and polifhed-brown fpots as in the laft fpecies, 

 which caufed Buffon to fuppofe it allied to that bird, or at lead 

 a variety. 



He mentions alfo another, in the cabinet of M. Mauduit, of 

 the fame fize, having the upper parts light green and gold on a 

 blackifh grey ground, and all the fore parts of the body rufous s 

 which appeared to him as a female of the above defcribed. 



VIOLET 

 H. B. 



Le Colibri violet de Cayenne, Brif. brn. iii. p. 683. N° 1 1.. t. 35. f. 3. 

 Le Colibri violet, Buf. eif. vi. p. 57. 

 Colibri violet de Cayenne, PL enl. 600. 2. 



Description. / Tp HE length of this bird is four inches and a quarter. The 

 bill almoft one inch, black, and not quite fo much curved 

 as in the laft : the whole head, the neck, back, breaft, and belly, 

 of a violet purple, very glofiy on the throat and breaft, but elfe- 

 where verging to velvety black : the wings gold green : tail the 

 fame, with a changeable glol's of black : legs black. 

 p LACE ., Inhabits Cayenne, 



16. 

 BLACK- 

 BREASTED 

 H. B. 



Des 



CRIfTION. 



Le Hauffe col vert, Biif. olf. vi. p. .5 Si 



'"TpHIS is rather bigger than the violet-tailed Humming-bird; 



but the bill is much the fame. The fore part and fides of 



the neck, a-sd lower part of the throat, are of an emerald green : . 



the 



