TROCHILUS. 



the fplendour of their colours. Gmelin mentions a variety, 

 viz. T. green ; beneath blue, with orange fpot on the chin ; 

 quill-feathers and tail obfcure. 



SuPERBUS. Gold-green, with blue crown ; double black- 

 and-white cheek-ftripe, and crimfon throat and breaft. 

 Stripe-cheeked humming-bird of Shaw. This fuperb 

 humming-bird is a moft beautiful fpecies, and one of the 

 fineft of this brilliant race. Native, probably, of South 

 America. 



Sapphirinus. Bright fapphire-coloured, with (lightly- 

 gilded back ; brovsTi wings ; black abdomen, and fteel-blue 

 tail. The fapphire humming-bird of Latham. Native of 

 South America. Gmelin mentions a variety, viz. T. with 

 fapphire breaft, white belly, and tail blue-black. 



Smaragdo-sapphirinus. With bright fapphire-blue 

 head and throat ; gold-green body ; brown wings, and fteel- 

 blue tail. The fapphire and emerald humming-bird of 

 Latham. Native of South America and the Weft Indies. 

 Shaw fuggefts that the two laft mentioned humming-birds 

 really conftitute one fpecies. He mentions a variety of the 

 laft from Viellot, -viz. the blue-gorge humming-bird. 



LuciDUS. Bright gold-green, with deep-blue throat, 

 breaft, and tail ; and a white fpot behind each eye : fup- 

 pofed by Azara and Sonnini to be the fame with the fapphire 

 and emerald humming-bird. Native of Paraguay. 



Ametiiystinus. Gold-green, varied beneath with 

 grey and brown, with amethyftine throat, and forked tail. 

 The amethyftine humming-bird of Latham. Native of 

 Cayenne. 



MoscniTUS. Purple-brown ; blackiih beneath, with 

 ruby-gold crown, topazine throat, and black-tipped tail. 

 The ruby-necked humming-bird of Latham. To this 

 fpecies Dr. Shaw refers the T. elatus of Gmelin's Lin- 

 B^us, or ruby-crefted humming-bird of Edwards and 

 Latham. This is one of the moft beautiful of the ftraight- 

 billed humming-birds. Native of South America, and par- 

 ticularly of Brafil, Guiana, and Surinam. The ruby-crefted 

 humming-bird is a variety. 



Pegasus. Gold-green ; grey beneath, with brown wings, 

 and blackifti-purple tail with grecnifti hue. Grey-bellied 

 humming-bird and gold-throated humming-bird of Latham. 

 Dr. Shaw fuggefts that this may be a young female of 

 T. mofchitus. 



Hypoph.eus. Gilded-brown ; whitiih beneath, with 

 brown crown, and gold-green ftripe down the middle of the 

 throat. The brown-crowned humming-bird of Latham, con- 

 jeftured by M. Viellot to be no other than an advancing 

 young of T. mofchitus. 



Carbunculus. Gloffy-black, with dark-red crown and 

 nape, fiery-red throat and breaft, and gilded-rufous tail. 

 The carbuncle humming-bird of Latham is fuggefted to be a 

 variety of T. mofchitus ; rare in Cayenne. 



Chrysurus. Gold-green, with cinnamon throat, brown 

 quill feathers, and topazine tail. Native of Paraguay. 



CoLUBRlS. Gold-green ; about three inches in length ; be- 

 neath white, with gold-red throat, and purple -brown wings 

 and tail. The red-throated humming-bird of Edwards and 

 Latham, red-throated honey -fucker of Pennant, guainumbi of 

 Marcgrave. A beautiful fpecies. A native of America, 

 breeding in Carolina, Florida, and, as fome fay, in Canada ; 

 and alfo a native of Jamaica and fome other Weft India illands. 

 The female differs in having the whole under fide white, 

 without any rednefs on the throat, and all the tail-feathers, 

 exclufive of the two middle ones, tipped with white. The 

 general hiftory of this beautiful bird is detailed by Mr. Pen- 

 nant in his Arftic Zoology. Its flight is rapid, fo that it 

 is tranfient as hghtning, and refembhng this meteor in the 



glare of its colours : it feeds only upon the wing, fufpended 

 over the flower from which it extrafts nourifhment. The 

 moft violent paffions foraetimes agitate the little bodies of 

 thefe birds. Their contefts in difputing pofleffion of the 

 fame flower are very violent ; tilting againft one another 

 with fuch fury, as if they intended to transfix their antagonifts 

 with their long bills. They are fearlefs of mankind, coming 

 into apartments of houfes, the windows of which are left 

 open, but when approached, darting away with admirable 

 velocity. Their nefts, made in branches of trees amidft the 

 thick fohage, are found with difficulty : they are of elegant 

 ftrufture, formed on the outfide with mofs, and within hned 

 with down or goflamer coUefted from the great mullein, 

 but fometimes conftruAed of flax, hemp, hair, and other 

 foft materials. The female is faid to be the builder, and the 

 male fupplies her with materials : both aflift in the labour 

 of incubation, which lafts twelve days : they lay only two 

 eggs, which are white, and as fmall as peafe. It is fuggefted 

 that the patch-necked humming-bird of Latham's firft fup- 

 plement is no other than a young male of this fpecies. The 

 tomineo of Gmelin is a variety. 



RuBiNEUS. Green-gold, with gold-red throat, purphfli- 

 brown wings, and rufous tail. The ruby-throated humming- 

 bird of Latham. Native of South America, and particu- 

 larly of Brafil, and is confidered as one of the rarer kinds of 

 humming-birds. 



Melhsugus. Gold-green, with glofly blue-green throat, 

 violet-black wings, and feathered legs. The emerald-throated 

 humming-bird of Shaw, the all-green humming-bird of 

 Edwards, and the Cayenne humming-bird of Latham. 

 This is one of Marcgrave's guainumbis. 



Collaris. Rufous, paler beneath, with gold-green 

 crown, and gold-red throat, with the feathers elongated on 

 each fide. The ruff-necked humming-bird of Latham. This 

 fpecies is numerous in Nootka Sound. 



Ornatus. Brownifh, with rufous creft, emerald 

 throat, and elongated rufous neck-feathers with gold-green 

 tips. The tufted-necked humming-bird of Latham. Native 

 of Guiana. j 



Albirostris. Blackidi, with gold-green throat ; each ' 

 feather edged with grey, and white bill, thighs, and vent. 

 The white-billed humming-bird of Shaw. Native of 

 Cayenne. 



ViELLOTi. Blackifh-ohve, with golden glofs ; beneath 

 whitifh, with violet-brown quill-feathers. Viellot's hum- 

 ming-bird, and black humming-bird of Latham. This 

 fmall fpecies is common in the ifland of St. Domingo, fup- 

 pofed by Viellot to be the T. niger of Linnseus. 



LeucolROTAI'IIOS. Gold-green ; beneath grey, with 

 white belly ; a whitiih ftripe behind the eyes, and blue- 

 black quill and tail-feathers. The moft common fpecies in 

 Paraguay. 



Maugeanus. Gold-green ; beneath gloflTed with violet- 

 blue, with violaceous-black wings and tail, the latter flightly 

 forked. Maugean humming-bird, or Tobago humming- 

 bird of Latham. Native of the ifland of Porto-Rico, 

 whence it was brought by M. Mauge. 



Ruber. Sub-ferruginous ; flightly fpotted with brown, 

 with the fide-feathers of the tail violet -brown. The httle 

 brown humming-bird of Lathum. Brought from Surinam. 



Cristatls. Gold-green, cinereous beneath ; with golden- 

 blue pointed creft, and violet quill-feathers and tail. The 

 crefted green humming-bird of Edwards and Latham. 

 The female differs in wanting the creft, and in being afli- 

 coloured beneath. Native of South America, and fome of 

 the Weft India iflands. 



PiLEATu.s. Brown, with glofl"y-blue pointed creft. The 



T. piini- ', 



