HUMMING-BIRD. 757 



the chin, juft under the bill, bronzed : the breaft is velvet black, 

 with an obfcure tinge of blue : the upper parts of the body and 

 fides are green gold : the belly white : the tail is purplifh blue, 

 with a fteely brown glofs, and does not reach beyond the ends of 

 the wings when clofed. 



The female, or at leaft one fuppofed to be fo, had the fame Female* 



diftribution of colours with the above, except that the green on 

 the fore part of the neck was divided by two white dallies, and 

 the black on the breaft neither fo broad, nor of fo dark a colour.' 



Both thefe are in- the cabinet of Dr. Mauduit, at Paris* 



Trochilus leucurus, Lin. Syjl.i. p. 190. N° 6i x * 



Le Colibri de Surinam, Brif. orn. iii. p. 674. N° 5. WHITE- 



Le Collier rouge, Buf. oij. vi. p. 59. ^'iT^n** 



Le Colibri a collier de Surinam, PI. enl. 600. f. 4. 

 White-tailed Humming-bird, Ediu. glean, t. 256. 



T ENGTH four inches and a half. Bill thirteen lines long, Description;, 



curved, black, lighted at the bafe : the plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body green gold, with a copper glofs; beneath 

 greyifh white : on the breaft is a crefcent of red : wings dark 

 purple on both fides : the two middle tail feathers are the fame 

 colour as the upper parts, and the eight others white : the legs 

 are black. 



It is found at Surinam. Linnaus obferves, that the two outer Place..- 



tail feathers' are black at the tips.. - 



Trochilus 



