7*4 



HUMMING-BIRD. 



541 



CRESTED 



BROWN 



H. B. 



Description. 



Br. Muf. 



QIZE of the laft: colour of the plumage dufky pale brown: 

 quills and tail darkeft : creft faftiioned as in the laft bird ; but 

 wholly of a glofly bright blue. 



Defcribed from a fpecimen in the Britijh Mufeum, but whether 

 allied to the laft uncertain : from whence it came is likewife 

 unknown. 



55- 

 TUFTED. 



NECKHD 



H. B. 



Description. 

 Male. 



LeHupecdl, Bvf.oif. vi. p. 18. 



L'Oifeau-mouche, dit le Hupecol de Cayenne, PL enl. 640. f. 3. 



Lev. Muf. 



/ I V HIS is a moft elegant as well as fingular fpecies : it is fcarce- 

 ly fo big as the red-throated : the head, and all the upper 

 parts of the body, are of a green gold : acrofs the rump is a white 

 band : beyond this, to the end of the tail, it is brown, with a 

 bronzed appearance ; but the inner webs of the feathers are ru- 

 fous : the under parts of the body are of a gilded green brown; 

 and the lower part of the belly white : on the top of the head is 

 a rufous creft, pretty long : but what characTxrifes the bird, is a 

 tuft on each fide of the neck, beneath the ears, confifting offeven 

 or eight feathers o'f different lengths, the longeft above half an 

 inch, the feathers of which are rather narrow, of a rufous colour, 

 and at the end of each there is a fhining green fpot ; thefe fea- 

 thers the bird is faid to erecf like a ruff, or deprefs them, at will; 

 and when the bird is at reft they are in the laft ftate, falling on 

 the neck : the throat, and fore part of the neck, are of a rich 



green 



