778 



HUMMING-BIRD-. 



which has been omitted by Briffbn, though Marcgravt clearly ex 

 prefles it to be fo *. 



44. 



GREY-BELLIED 



H. B. 



Description. 



Place, 



Trochilus pegafus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 192. N° 16. 



L'Oifeau-mouche a ventre gris de Cayenne, Brif. orit. 'in, p. 709^ N a 9» 

 t. 36. f. 4. 



Br. Muf. 



'np^HIS fpecies is green gold above, as the Laft ;. and beneath 

 grey brown. The bill is feven lines and a half long, and 

 black : the tail has the lower half the colour of the back ; the end. 

 half purple black; the fide feathers grey at the tips : the legs are 

 feathered to the toes with grey brown ; and the toes and claws 

 are black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. "Wifhing to give every one's opinion, it ia, 

 right here to obferve, that Buffon thinks this bird to be the female 

 of the laft mentioned, contrary to the opinion of Linnaus. and. 

 Briffbtty who place it as a diftinct fpecies. 



45- 



LITTLE 



BROWN 



H. B. 



Description. 



Trochilus ruber, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 193. N° 21. 



L'Oifeau-mouche de Surinam, Brif. orn. iii. p. 701. N° 4* 



L'Oifeau-mouche pourpre, Buf. oif. vi. p. 24. 



Little brown Humming-bird, Edna, i. t. 32. 



■ Bancr. Guian. p. 168. 



'"jpHE length of this fpecies is three inches two lines. Bill tea 

 ■*" lines ; the upper mandible black ; the lower flefti-coloured, 



* Le devant du corps blanc, mele au-deflbus du cou de quelques plumes de 

 couleur eclatante, See Hifl. des oif. — Mem, the Planfbts tnluminhs has it not. 



with-. 



