HUMMING-BIRD. 301 



and tail the same, glossed with green ; cheeks beneath the eyes, 

 sides, and lower part of the neck, and breast, fine bright garnet- 

 colour. 



B. — Certhia prasinoptera, Ind. Orn. i. 300. Mus. Carls, t. 81. 

 Soui-manga prasinoptere, Ois. dor. ii. p. 65. 

 Green-winged Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 163. 



Bill black; the top of the head, nape, back, lower part of the 

 breast, and sides, black ; throat, fore part of the neck, and upper 

 part of the breast purple; wings glossy changeable green; the tail 

 greenish brown ; legs black. 



Inhabits Surinam, and is probably a further Variety of the 

 Garnet-throated . 



15— RED-BREASTED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus jugularis, Ind. Orn.'i. 305. Lin. i. 190. Gm. Lin.'u 4S9. 

 Colibri a gorge carmin, Buf. vi. 56. Ois. dor. i. 126. 

 Colibri, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxiv. 



Red-breasted Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 753. Edw. pi. 266. Shaw's Zool. viii. 

 288. pi. 39. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill thirteen lines long, pretty much 

 curved, black; top of the head, neck behind, belly, thighs, and tail 

 dusky brown, or black, the feathers a little fringed with blue ; sides 

 of the head, throat, and breast fine red, or carmine, as bright as a 

 ruby ; wings fine dark green, with a polished gold gloss, within 

 green ; rump and upper tail coverts fine blue ; legs short, and 

 blackish. 



Inhabits Surinam. 



