HUMMING-BIRD. 



775- 



Le Saphir, Buf. olf. vi. p. 26. 



'TpHIS is fomewhat above the common fize of the birds of this 

 * genus. The bill is white, with a black tip : the fore part 

 of the neck and bread are of a rich fapphire blue, with a glofs 

 of violet : the throat rufous: the body, both above and beneath, 

 of a deep green gold : the lower part of the belly white : under 

 tail coverts rufous : the upper ones of a bright gilded brown : 

 tail of a gilded rufous colour, bordered with brown : wings brown. 



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SAPPHIRE 



H. B. 



Description. 



A BIRD nearly allied to this had only the breaft fapphire-co- 



loured ; the reft of the body being of a very bright glofTy 



green : the belly white : and the bill the fame as the firft: but the 



bird not quite fo big : the tail rather rounded at the end, and 



of a glofTy blue black colour. 



This laft came from Guiana * r and is probably a variety. 



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 Var. A. 



Description-. 



Place- 



Le Saphir-emeraude, Buf. oif. vi. p. 26. 

 Colibri N° 2, Finn. Defcrif. de Surinam, vol. ii, p. 

 Lev. Muf. 



195? 



HpHIS fpecies is about the middle fize. It is made up of the 

 two colours exprefTed in the title, viz. the fapphire and the 

 emerald; both colours perfectly vivid and glofly; the firft occu- 

 pying the head and throat, and blending itfelf with the fecond, 

 which covers the breaft, ftomach, round the neck, and the back, 



Hiji. des eif, vi. p. %J. 



40. 



SAPPHIRE AND- 



EMERALD 



H.B. 



Description,- 



gioflkf 



