HUMMING-BIRD. 773 



throat, and fore part of the neck, green gold ; each feather mar- 

 gined with grey : the breaft, belly, vent, and under tail coverts, 

 white: the region of the vent feems covered with down, not fea- 

 thery, like the reft : the quills blue black : tail greenifh black, 

 and not tipped with white. This lad circumftance is the cafe 

 alfo in a fpecimen in my pofTeflion, in which the tail is much 

 rounded in fhape, and the under tail coverts green ; but in every 

 thing befides, it perfectly agrees with the laft defcribed. 



Trochilus mellifirgus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 19*. N" 15. 



L'Oifeau-mouche de Cayenne, Brif. em. iii. p. 704. N° 6. t. 36. f. J. CAYENNE 



Le vert-dore, Buf. oif. vi. p. 29. H. B. 



Oifeau-mouche de Cayenne, PL enl. 276. f. 3. 



Guianumbi nona fpecies, Rail Syn. p. 83. N° 9.— Will, orn, p. 232. N° <^. 



Lev. Muf. 



LENGTH from bill to tail two inches ten lines. Bill eio;ht -p. 

 lines and a half in length, and black : plumage in general 

 green gold, bronzed with copper: thighs and under tail coverts 

 grey brown : vent feathers white: quills violet brown: tail fteel 

 black : legs covered to the toes with brown feathers : toes and 

 claws black. 



Inhabits Cayenne: Buffon fays, that his fpecimen had the belly Place. 



only waved with green j and mentions, after Marcgrave, that the 

 lower mandible was rufous. 



Trochilus 



