290 HUMMING-BIRD. 



The above are divided according to the present idea we have 

 formed of thein, aided by the authors referred to, but by no means 

 vouching for being- correct; and we shall feel ourselves thankful to any 

 future naturalist, who may concur with us in the opinion we have 

 formed, of the true and respective alliance these birds bear to each 

 other, from his own observation. 



* WITH CURVED BILLS. 



1— PARADISE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Paradiseus, Ind. Orn.'i. 301. Lin. i. 1S9. Gm. Lin. i. 484. Borotvsk. ii. 158. 



Polytmus Mexicanus longicaudus ruber cristatus, Bris. hi. 692. Id. Svo. ii. 28. 



Mellivora avis cristata, Seba, i. 97. t. 61. f. 4. Klein, 107. 5. 



Le Colibri huppe, Ois. dor. i. p. 125. Bvf.v'x. p. 54. 



Paradise Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 745. Shaw's Zool. viii. 276. 



THE length of this bird is eight inches and a half. Bill thirteen 

 and a half lines long, crooked, and black; tongue bifid; plumage 

 in general elegant red ; the feathers on the top of the head narrow, 

 and long, forming a crest ; some of them measuring three quarters 

 of an inch; wing coverts and quills blue; tail red, the two middle 

 feathers much exceed the others in length ; legs black. 



Inhabits Mexico. Seba compares his bird to one figured in 

 Sloatie's Jamaica, which is not crested, but with a ring round the 

 neck. 



