HUMMING-BIRD. 293 



4— SUPERCILIOUS HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus superciliosus, Ind. Orn. i. 302. Lin. i. 189. Gm. Lin. i. 485. 



Polytmus Cayanensis longicaudus, Bris. iii. 686. t. 35. 5. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 26. 



Le Brin blanc, Buf. vi. 49. Ois. dor. ii. 37. pi. 17, 18, 19. 



Colibri a longue Queue de Cayenne, PL en/. 600. 3. 



Supercilious Humming-Bird, Gen. Si/n. ii. 747. Shaw's Zool. viii. 234. 



LENGTH near six inches. Bill much bent, one inch and a half 

 long, and black; plumage above brown, with a gilded gloss; over 

 each eye a whitish stripe ; wing coverts brown ; quills violet brown ; 

 under parts of the body rufous white ; the two middle feathers exceed 

 the others in length by above an inch, and the elongated part white ; 

 the others rounded in shape, or cuneiform ; the outmost feather being 

 very short; the two centre ones, from the base to the middle gilded 

 brown, from thence to the end white ; the others have the lower half 

 gilded brown, then black, with brown ends, edged with white ; legs 

 and claws brown. 



In the female the long tail feathers are wanting, and all the 

 feathers are tipped with white; through the eye a white streak ; all 

 the under parts cinereous grey. 



The young male is smaller, the lower half of the under mandible 

 white ; general colour of the plumage like that of the adult, but less 

 brilliant; the tips of the feathers white for a greater depth than in 

 the female at any age; legs white; no spot of white on the lower 

 belly. — In one specimen I observed the bill to be near two inches in 

 length. 



In the collection of General Davies was one five inches long. 

 Bill one inch, pale horn-colour; plumage green; beneath gilded 

 green-gold; behind the eye a streak of white; and above it, beginning 

 a little behind the former, a second of the same ; wings brown black ; 

 the middle tail feathers deep green, the extreme tips pale dun ; the 

 two next green, with one-fourth of the end dun ; the other feathers 



