HUMMING-BIRD. 290 



11— CAYENNE FORK-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus forcipatus, Lid. Orn. i. 304. 

 ■ macrourus, Gm. Lin. i. 487. 

 Mellisuga Cayanensis cauda bifurca, Rail, S3. 3. Id. 187. 41. Will. 166. Id. Engl. 



231. 3. Sloan. Jam. 309. 41. 

 Oiseau-mouche a longue Queue d'acier bruni, Buf. vi. 36. 



a Queue fourchue de Cayenne, Ois. dor*\. 113. 



Cayenne Fork-tailed Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 751. Shaw's Zool. viii. 310. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill eleven lines, black, very little bent; 

 general colour of the plumage glossy green gold ; on the lower part 

 of the belly a white spot; tail forked, the two outer feathers three 

 inches and three quarters long, the middle ones only one inch and 

 three quarters ; colour blue black, with a polished steel gloss ; legs 

 black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Some authors have ranked this and the last 

 with the Straight-billed division, and we have seen some specimens, 

 the bills of which were nearly so, but in most of them that part has 

 curvature sufficient to place them in the present section. 



12— BLUE FORKED-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH full six inches. Bill as in the last described ; plumage 

 in general fine green, brilliant on the crown, appearing in the man- 

 ner of the Crested Species ; throat blue ; quills brown ; tail greatly 

 forked, the longest or exterior feather four inches, the next two and 

 a half, the inner scarcely one inch, the outmost of the most brilliant 

 fiery violet-blue imaginable, the others much the same, but more or 

 less inclining to green towards the base. 



A fine specimen of the above in the Museum of Mr. Bullock. 



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