77? HUMMING-BIRD. 



glofTed with gold-colour ; giving the bird, on the whole, a molt 

 beautiful appearance. 

 Place, This inhabits Guadeloupe. 



I think this muft be the bird mentioned by Fermin, which 

 is green and gold above : throat emerald-green : breaft blue, 

 glofled with gold, very brilliant : the bill ilrait, and an inch 

 in length. 



41. 

 DU6XY- 



C ROW NED Br. Muf. 



H. B. 



Description. T ENGTH four inches and a quarter. Bill three quarters of an 



inch; ftrait, and dufky: the whole top of the head, taking 



in the eye on each fide, is dufky : chin and throat glofly green : 



hind part of the neck, and upper part of the back, deep blue : 



breaft, belly, and wing coverts, purplifh blue : middle of the 



back inclining to green : lower part of the back, rump, tail, and 



^quills, dufky purple : legs black. 



In the Britijh Mufeum. 



42. 

 4- BROWN- 

 CROWNED 



H. B. [ENGTH three inches. Bill ftrait, black, and three quarters 



Descjuption. pf an - mc ^ j n ] en g tn . on tne middle of the crown a fpot of 



brown, reaching to the bafe of the bill : the plumage on the upper 

 parts glofly brown j beneath dirty white : belly white : down the 

 middle of the throat and neck, as far as the belly, pafies a green 

 gold ftripe : quills black : tail cinnamon-coloured at the bafe, 

 and dufky at the ends : legs black. 

 Place. In the collection of Mifs Blomefield, who received it from Hol- 



land t to which place it was probably brought from Surinam. 



9 I have 



