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the ends ; the two middle feathers fhorteft : legs and claws 

 blackifli. 

 Female. The female has only a dafh of the golden or topaz, on the- 



breaft and fore part of the neck ; and the reft of the under parts 

 are greyifh white. 

 „ This fpecies inhabits Brafil. They have likewife been received' 



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from Curapao, where they are not fcarce : and are alio iound at 

 Guiana and Surinam. 



Trochilus elatus, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 192. N° 19. 

 ROBY L'Oifeau^mouche a gorge topaze d'Amerique, Brif. em. iii. p. 6gj. W 2i 



CRESTED L'Oifeau-mouche a gorge topaze de Cayenne, PL enl. 640. f. I. 



H. B. Ruby-crelted Humming-bird, Ednu. glean, t. 344. 



Leu.. Muf.. 



Description. 'HDWARDS defcribes this in the following manner: — The bill" 

 is black : the head crefted, of a flame-colour, with the luftre 

 of a ruby : the throat like burnifhed gold, gloffed with emerald : 

 body, and wing coverts, dull brownifh olive : quills purplifh : 

 tail cinnamon-colour tipped with black : lower belly, and under 

 tail coverts,, cinnamon : acrofs the middle of the belly is a white 

 line : and the bright fpot on the throat divided from the neck; 

 and breaft by a dufky line : legs black. 

 Placki asb Said to be natives of Guiana and Terra firma. — I have alfo re- 



Qbse*.vations. ceived fpecimens -both from Cayenne, and Tobago. This bird 

 feems to be akin to the 1 aft, as that in Edwards's plate, and in the 

 Planches enluminees are very fimilar; except that in the laft,.the 

 creft fcarcely ftands up from the head; it is therefore probable 

 that it may have been a bird not yet come to its full degree of 

 perfection, or perhaps differing from climate, 



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