772 HUMMING-BIRD. 



3°. L'Oifeau-mouche a gorge tacheteede Cavenne, Brlf. orn. iii. p. 706. N" 7. 

 +- SPOTTED. t a r 



NECKED 3 tm 2 " 



H t jj, L'Oifeau-mouche a. gorge tachetee, Buf. oif. vi. p. 31. 



Oifeau-mouche tachete de Cayenne, PI. enl. p. 276. f. t. 



Description. 'T'HIS bird is near four inches long, and the bill is eleven lines 1 

 the upper mandible is black ; the lower whitifh, with a 

 black tip : general colour of the plumage green gold, gloried 

 with copper : on the breaft the feathers are fringed with white : 

 and the belly, under tail coverts, and thighs, are grey : all the 

 tail feathers are fteel black j but the two middle ones have a cop- 

 per glofs j and all the others are tipped with grey : legs and claws 

 black. 



Buffon obferves, that it has great affinity to the next defcribed 3 

 except that it is bigger, otherwife one description might ferve- 



. 36. 

 Var. A. 



o 



Lev. Muf. 



NE in the Leverian Mufeum anfwers very nearly to the above 

 defcription. The length of the [bird and the bill perfectly 

 coincide : the plumage above is green gold, gloffed with copper : 



four months, by the following method : — he made an exaft imitation of fome of 

 the tubular flowers with paper, fattened round a tobacco-pipe, and painted 

 them of a proper colour ; thefe were placed in the order of nature, in the cage 

 wherein thefe little creatures were confined : the bottoms of the tubes were filled 

 with a mixture of brown fugar and water, as often as emptied ; and he had the 

 pleafure of feeing them perform every attion ; for they foon grew familiar, 

 and took the nourimment in the fame manner as when ranging at large, though 

 clofe under his eye. 



throaty 



