766 HUMMING-BIRD. 



quills violet brown: the tail is a little forked; the two middle 

 feathers are of the fame colour as the back ; the others white *, 

 margined on the lower half on the outfide, and tipped with 

 black : legs and claws black. 

 Pl-ace. Inhabits Surinam. Edwards fays, that the whole of the plu- 



mage in the fun, feems as if mixed with threads of gold. 



In my fpecimen the bill is a trifle curved at the tip, and (harper 

 at the point than is ufual in this genus. 



32. Trochilus ouriffia, Lin. Syft. i. p. 191. N° 13 ? 



i>mc Oifeau-mouche a poitrine bleue de Surinam, Br if. orn. iii.p.711. N° 10. 



£[_ g # L'Emeraude — amethifte, Buf. oif. vi. p. 27. 



-Oifeau-mouche a poitrine bleue de Surinam, PI. enl. 227. f. 3. 

 Green and blue Humming-bird, Edmi. i. t. 35. f. 2. 



Description. ' ENGTH not quite four inches. Bill ten lines and a half long, 

 and black: head, throat, neck, lower part of the back, rump, 

 fcapulars, and upper tail and leffer wing coverts, green gold, 

 gloried with copper : upper part of the back blue : breaft, upper 

 part of the belly, and fides, the fame, with a bright gold cad : 

 lower part of the belly and fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, 

 dull brown : greater wing coverts, quills, and tail, brown ; the 

 two middle feathers of the laft not fo long as the others : legs and 

 claws black. 

 Place and Inhabits Surinam. Edwards thinks it not unlikely, that this 



Observations, may be the other fex of the laft mentioned, but neither Linnaeus, 

 Briffbn, nor Buffon ]o\n him in that opinion: I cannot fee what 

 led him to think it, except the circumftance of the middle tail 

 feathers being ihorter than the reft in both birds. 



* In my fpecimen the tail feathers are twelve in number j the two middle 



cnes green., the reft white, as above mentioned. 



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