HUMMING-BIRD. 



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green gold colour; and, if che eye is placed beneath, appear brown, 

 and without glofs. 



The female has neither the creft nor the ruff as the male: the Female. 

 band on the rump, and the throat, are both inclined to rufous : the 

 reft of the parts beneath are likewife rufous, with a caft of green : 

 the upper part of the head, and the back, are, like the male, of a 

 gold green. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



Place. 



56. 

 +- RUFF- 

 NECKED 

 H. B. 



Pl. XXXV. 



Description. 



T ENGTH three inches and a quarter. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch, ftrait, and black : crown of the head glofly green 

 gold, inclining to olive : upper parts of the body pale cinnamon : 

 between the wings a greenifh glofs : throat and breaft of a mod 

 refplendent glowing ruby-colour, in different fhades appearing 

 gloffed with olive green; on the fides of the neck deepeft; feve- 

 ral of thefe feathers are elongated on the fides of the neck, and 

 appear to be moveable, as in the laft fpecies : the wing coverts are 

 of a dufky greenifh colour : quills purplifti brown : the lower 

 part of the breaft, and beginning of the belly, dirty reddilh white : 

 lower belly, and vent, pale cinnamon : tail in general gloffy cin- 

 namon; the feathers of it remarkably broad for the length, the 

 two middle ones being full half an inch, the other leffening in 

 proportion ; all of them tend to a point at the end, and are black 

 down the middle, and at the tips : legs black. 



The female is of the fame fize, but is green gold on the upper Female. 



part of the body, inftead of cinnamon : on the throat are fpots 

 only of the glowing ruby-colour : breaft, and vent, as in the other: 

 the tail feathers likewife correfpond in colour and make, but 

 ;ach of the feathers, except the two middle ones, has a white fpot 



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