HUMMING-BIRD. 295 



6.— BLUE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus cyanurus, Ind. Orn. i. 303. Gm. Lin. i. 4S5. 



Polytiuus Mexicanus longicaudus, Bris. iii. 688. Id. 8vo. ii. 27. 



Yayauquitotl, Seba, i. 84. t. 51. 7. jK7«'h, 107. 4. 



Le Brin bleu, Buf. vi. 51. Ois. dor. i. 125. 



Blue-tailed Hururuing-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 749. Shaw's Zool. viii. 278. 



THIS is probably the largest species known ; length eight inches 

 and a quarter. Bill one inch and a quarter, bent and yellowish ; 

 fore part of the head, about the eyes, throat, and neck before blue; 

 upper parts from nape to rump green ; deeper on the back ; from 

 the breast to vent cinereous grey ; the two middle feathers of the 

 tail fine blue, and longer than the rest by two inches and one- 

 third ; the others fine green, lessening by degrees to the outmost, 

 which are very short ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



7. —LONG-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus forficatus, Ind. Orn. i. 303. Lin. i. 190. Gm. Lin. i. 486. Borowsk ii. 157. 



t. 24. A. Gerin.iv. t.403. 2? 

 Falcinellus vertice caudaque cyaneis, Klein, An. 108. 

 Mellisuga Jamaieensis cauda bifurca, Bris. iii. 728. Id. Svo. ii. 39. 

 Oiseau-mouche a longue queue, or, vert, and bleu, Buf. vi. 38. 

 Long-tailed Green Humming-Bird, Edw. pi. 33. Brown Jam. 475. 

 Fork-tailed Humming-Bird, Gen. 5yw. ii. 750. Nat. Misc. pi. 222. Shaw's Zool. viii. 



279. pi. 38. 



LENGTH seven inches two lines. Bill black, slightly bent, and 

 three quarters of an inch long ; top of the head blue ; the rest of the 

 plumage splendid green; bottom of the belly, under tail coverts, 

 and sides at the base, white ; thighs brown ; quills violet brown, 



