HUMMING-BIRD. 291 



2— FIRE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Bar-tailed Humming-Bird, Shaw's Zool. viii. 291. pi. 39.* 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill seven-eighths of an inch 

 long, scarcely curved, black ; head, neck, and wings black brown, 

 with a greenish tinge; throat vivid, emerald green; body beneath 

 soot-coloured ; belly marbled with ash-colour ; quills black, the 

 outer one white on the edge ; the same on the outer part of the wing 

 the whole length ; the rump tinged with purple ; upper tail coverts 

 deep crimson ; tail much forked, the feathers growing broader 

 towards the ends ; tips rounded, and indented, colour tine gilded 

 copper, bright as fire in some lights, and margined all round with 

 purplish brown black ; shafts black ; the outer feather three inches 

 and three quarters long; the next one inch and one-eighth shorter; 

 the third inward seven-eighths shorter than the adjoining ; these six 

 are all which remain of the tail, for no doubt it originally consisted 

 of a greater number; legs dusky. 



In Mr. Bullock's Museum, said to have come from Peru. 



3— TOPAZ HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Pella, Jnd. Orn. i. 302. Lin. i. 189. Gm. Lin.i. 4S5. 



Polytmus Surinamensis longicaudus ruber, Bris.'m. 690. 7rf.8vo.ii. p. 27. Gerin. 



iv. t. 305. 2. 

 Falcinellus gutture viridi, Klein, 108. 15. 

 Certhia Surinamensis, Spalowsk. Vog. i. t. 13. 



Colibri topaze, Buf. vi. 46. PL enl. 599. 1. Ois. dor. i. 15. pi. 2 & 3. 

 Der topaz keblige Kolibri, Schmid, Vog. p. 61. t. 48. 

 Grand Colibri, Ferm. Surin. ii. 195. Tern. Man. Ed.'ii. Anal. p. lxxxiv. 

 Long-tailed Red Humming-Bird, Ediv. pi. 32. 

 Topaz Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 746. Nut. Misc. pi. 513. Shaw's Zool. viii. 274. 



pi. 37. 



NEARLY the size of a Wren ; Length six inches, the two middle 

 tail feathers included. Bill fourteen inches long, bent, black ; head 



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