7 88 HUMMING-BIRD, 



g 0i Trochilus minimus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 193. N° 22. 



•i- LEAST L'Oifeau-mouche, Brif. orn. iii. p. 695. N° 1. t. 36. f. I, the male; 



**' "• Le plus petit Oifeau-mouche, Buf. oif. vi. p. 11. t. 1. 



■ -1 de l'Amerique, PI. enl. 276. f. I. 



Guainumbi minor, corpore toto cinereo, Rail. Syn. p. 83. N° 7. 



The feventh fpecies, or leafl Humming-bird of Marcgrave, Will. om. 132, 



— Rati. Syn. p. 187. N° 44. 

 Leaft Humming-bird, Shane Jam. ii. p. 307. N° 38.— Ediv. ii. t. 105. 

 the female. — Brown Jam. p. 475. the female. 



Description. 'TPHIS is by much the leafl of all the fpecies : fmall indeed, 

 fince it is exceeded, both in weight and dimenfions, by 

 more than one fpecies of Bees / Sir Hans Shane obferves, that 

 it weighs no more than twenty grains when frefh killed : the total 

 length is one inch and a quarter. The bill is black; three lines and 

 a half in length : the upper parts of the head and body are of a 

 greenifh gilded brown, in fome lights appearing reddlfh : the un- 

 der parts aregreyifh white : the wings are violet brown : the tail 

 of a blueifh black, with aglofs of polifhed metal ■, but the outer 

 feather but one, on each fide, is grey from the middle to the tip ; 

 and the outer one wholly grey : legs and claws brown. 

 Femaie. The female is lefs than the male : the whole upper fide of a 



dirty brown, with a flight glofs of green : the under parts of a 

 dirty white. 

 Place. Thefe birds are found in various parts of South America, and 



the iflands contiguous thereto. I have received this fpecies 

 from Jamaica. 



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