CHRYSOLAMPIS MOSCHITUS. 



Ruby and Topaz. 



Trochilus moschitus, Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 192. — lb. Gmel. Edit., torn. i. p. 494. — Vieill. 



Ency. Meth. Orn., part ii. p. 570. — Swains. Birds of Brazil, pi. 30. — Pr. Max. 



Beitr. zur Naturg. von Bras., p. 56. — Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming Birds, vol. i. p. 103. 



pi. 11. 

 Mellisuga Brasiliensis, gutture topazino, Briss. Orn., torn. iii. p. 699. pi. xxxvii. fig. 1. 

 Le Rubis-topaze, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., torn. vi. p. 19. — Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., torn. i. 



pp. 62, 64, 102, 103, 104. pis. 29, 30, 54, 55, 56. 

 L'Oiseau moiiche a gorge topaze du Bresil, Buff. PI. Enl. 227. fig. 2, et 640. fig. 1. 

 U Oiseau-mouche a gosier dore, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., torn. i. p. 89. pi. 46. 

 Ornismya moschita, Less. Hist. Nat. des Ois. Mou., p. 166. pis. 52, 53, 54. — lb. Traite d'Orn., 



p. 280. 

 Chrysolampis moschitus, Boie in Oken's Isis,1831. — Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 82, Chrysolampis, 



sp. 1. 

 Mellisuga moschita, Steph. Cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 253. — Gray and Mitch. Gen. 



of Birds, vol. i. p. 113, Mellisuga, sp. 96. 

 Chrysolampis mosquitus, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 256. — Reichenb. Aufz. der 



Colibris, p. 9. — lb. Troch. enumer., p. 5. pi. dccxxiii. 

 Trochilus pegasus, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 495? 



gujanensis, lb., p. 498? — Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 317. 



carbunculus, lb., p. 498. — Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 317. 



elatus, lb., p. 499. 



Mellisuga Cayanensis, ventre griseo, Briss. Orn., torn. iii. p. 709. pi. xxxvi. fig. 4? 



EOiseau mouche de la Guiane, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., torn. i. p. 116 ? 



VEscarboucle, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., torn. vi. p. 28. — Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., torn. i. 



p. 102. pi. 54. 

 Guiana Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 781. — lb. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 336? 

 Carbuncle Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 782. — Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 333. 



— Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 337. 

 Grey-bellied Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 334 ? — Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. 



p. 332 ? 

 Ruby-necked Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 779. — lb. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 330. 

 Chrysolampis carbunculus, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibris, p. 9. — lb. Troch. enumer., p. 5. 



pi. dccxxiii. fig. 4650. 

 Small green and crimson Humming Bird, Bancroft's Guiana, p. 168. 

 Trochilus with a ferruginous tail, Bancroft's Guiana, p. 168. 

 Aurora Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 338. 

 Ruby-headed Humming Bird, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 329. pi. 42. 

 Broivn-croivned Humming Bird, Trochilus hypophceus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 333 ? 



If any one species of this extensive family of birds be better known than another, it is undoubtedly the Ruby 

 and Topaz Humming Bird here represented, for it is not only one of those earliest discovered, but its beauty 

 is of such a character as at once to fix the attention of every observer. It is also one of the commonest of 

 the entire group, and plays no inconsiderable part in commerce, the capturing and skinning of the 

 specimens which are sent home by thousands affording considerable employment to the Brazilian slaves 



