HUMMING-BIRD. 



brown : and the belly white. This bird is very fmall, not more 

 than two inches in length. 



Edwards's all-green Humming-bird above mentioned, cannot be 

 far different ; the fize of it is very fmall, and the luftre as bril- 

 liant; but he obferves that the belly is blueifh beneath, and 

 does not hint one word of any white about it. 



It muft be owned, that thefe two laft feem to differ in the co- 

 lour of the plumage, but perhaps this may arife from their being 

 of oppofite fexes. I have, in my collection, a bird which I take 

 to be the above : the length is two inches : the upper parts are 

 green gold : the under, from chin to vent, white : quills and tail 

 blue black ; the laft a trifle forked : bill and legs black. 



This I had from 'Tobago. 



Linnaeus places it among the fynonyma of his Mellifugus ; but 

 in the Mufeum Adolphi, which he quotes likewife, this laft is 

 mentioned as a large fpecies *. 



787 



L'Amethifte, Buf. oif. vi. p. 16. 



Petit Oifeau-mouche a queue fourchue de Cayenne, Pi. oil. 672. f. 1. 



59' „ 

 AMETHYSTINE 



H. B. 



/ *T" V HIS is about the fize of the red-throated Humming-bird : the Description. 



upper parts of the body green gold j the under parts mar- 

 bled with greyifh white and brown : the throat, and fore part of 

 the neck, are of a bright amethyft-colour ; but when the eye is 

 placed below, they' appear of a purplifh brown : the wings are 

 rather fhort : and the tail forked. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Flacb. 



• Corpus inter majores hujus Generis, Muf. Adolph. ii. pi ix. 



c H 2 Tiochiius 



