HUMMING-BIRD. 303 



red purple, the ends violet, or steel blue; the others steel blue ; the 

 coverts reach half way on the tail ; quills dusky, as long as the tail ; 

 legs black. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



17.— GREEN-GOLD HUMMING-BIRD. 



Polytmus viridis, Vieill. Am. ii. p. 71. 



Colibri vert, Ois. dor. i. 34. pi. 15. 



Green-gold Humming-Bird, Shatv's Zool. viii. 305. 



SIZE of the Mango Species ; length four inches and a half. 

 Plumage in general green-gold; quills dusky; tail steely blue; all 

 but the two middle feathers white just at the tip. 



Inhabits the Islands of America. 



18— VIOLET-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus nitidus, Ind. Orn. i. 305. 



albus, Gm. Lin. i. 488. 



Colibri a Queue violette, Bit/, vi. 55. PI. enh 671. 2. Ois. dor. i. 27. pi. 11. 

 Violet-tailed Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 754. Shaw's Zool. viii. 301. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill sixteen lines, bent ; sides of the 

 throat white, in the middle brown, mixed with green ; breast and 

 belly white ; plumage, on the upper parts of the body, tine variable 

 gilded green ; quills violet brown ; tail a trifle rounded at the end ; 

 the four middle feathers deep violet, glossed with gilded yellow ; the 

 others are also violet, but have the tips and inner margins white;* 

 legs dusky. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



* In my copy of the PI. enl. the three outer feathers have the base half rufous ; from 

 thence to the end steel blue, obliquely marked with white at the tips. 



