296 HUMMING-BIRD. 



but the three nearest the body green gold ; tail the same with a blue 

 gloss, the shape forked, but not regularly ; the two outer feathers 

 are three inches longer than the rest, the two middle ones only ten 

 lines long, the intermediate ones lessening by degrees; legs black. 



Inhabits Jamaica ; the long tailed feathers in this and the last 

 are supported at the base, both above and beneath, with one of a 

 stiffer texture. 



8— BLACK-CAPPED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Polytmus, Lid. Orn. i. 302. Lin.i. 1S9. Gm. Lin. i. 486. Vieill. Am. ii. 



p. 71. 

 Falcinellus Cauda septem unciavum, Klein, 108. 17. 

 Mellisuga Jamaicensis atricapilla cauda bifurca, Bris. iii. 729. Id. 8vo. ii. 40. Gerin. 



iv. t. 306. 2. Spalowsk. Vog. i. t. 16. 

 Oiseau-rnouche a longue Queue noire, Buf. vi. 39. 

 Long-tailed black-capped Humming-Bird, Edw. pi. 34. Alb. iii. pi. 49, Gent. Mag, 



xx. pi. in p. 121. Bancr. Guian. 169. 

 Black-capped Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn.'u. 748. Shaw's Zool. viii. 281. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill ten lines long, little 

 bent, yellow, tip black ; irides yellow ; top of the head and nape 

 black ; plumage on the upper parts yellowish green, the under 

 glossy bluish green ; edge of the wing white ; wing coverts violet- 

 brown ; quills the same, the margin of the first white ; tail blackish, 

 the feathers very unequal in length, the two outer ones being fourteen 

 lines long ; the two next from seven to eight inches ; the inner web 

 undulated on the margin ; the next to these only one inch ; and the 

 two middle ones no more than half an inch, making the tail appear 

 extremely forked ; legs black. 



The female of the same size, and the bill the same; base of the 

 under mandible white half way ; crown dusky brown ; upper parts 

 of the plumage as in the male ; beneath, from chin to vent, white; 



