762 



HUMMING-BIRD. 



Place. 



Inhabits St. Domingo. 



In the collection of Mifs Blomefield is a variety of this, having 

 a narrow ftripe of fhining green down the middle of the neck, 

 from the chin to the bread j and the tail not tipped with white.. 



23. 

 CRIMSON- 

 HEADED BLUE 

 H. B. 



Description. 



TlacSo 



Le Golibri bleu du Mexique, Brif. orn. iii. p. 681. N° 9. 



Le Colibri bleu, Buf. oif, vi. p. 61. 



Gros Colibri, Du Tertr. Hift. des Ant. ii. p. 263. 



Avicula Mexicana cyaneo colore venuftiffima, Seba, i. p. 102. t. 65. f. 3. 



F-lALF as big as a Wren *. The head, throat, and under part 

 of the body, to the middle of the belly, are like crirrifon 

 velvet, with different gloffes as they are expofed to different 

 lights: all the back is blue : wings black. 



This defcription is from Du Tertr e: Buffon thinks that the ac- 

 count of Brijfon may miflead the reader, not only here, but in. 

 every inftance wherein the defcriptions of Seba are relied on. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



24. 



ST. DOMINGO 



H..B. 



Description. 



Trochilus Dominicus, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 191. N° 9... 



Le Colibri du St. Domingue, Brif. orn. iii. p. 672. N° 4, 



Le vert perle, Buf. oif. vi. p. 62. 



y HIS bird meafures in length a little more than four inches. 

 The bill is one inch long, and of a brown colour : the up- 

 per parts of the head, neck, body, and tail, are of a light gold 

 green, mixing at the fides of the neck and breaft with the pearly 



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