304 



HUMMING-BIRD. 



19 —GREY-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus margaritaceus, Ind. Orn. i. 308. Gm. Lin. i. 490. 

 Le Plastron blanc, BuJ. vi. 61. Ois. dor. i. 35. pi. 16. 

 Colibri de St. Domingue, PL enl. 680. 1. 

 Grey-necked Humming-Bird, Gen. Spi. ii. 761. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill one inch ; body above green gold ; 

 beneath, from the throat to the lower part of the belly, pearly grey ; 

 tail steel black blue near the base, then purplish brown, afterwards 

 crossed with a glossy black brown band, and finally white at the tip. 



Inhabits St. Domingo. I have met with a specimen which appears 

 to vary in two particulars, viz. having a narrow stripe of shining 

 green down the middle of the neck, from the chin to the breast, and 

 the tail not tipped with white. This is supposed, by some, to be a 

 young bird of the Black-breasted Species,* but by others of the 

 Gold-2:reen. 



20— FERVID HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill full one inch and a half long, and 

 much curved downwards ; colour dusky, the under mandible pale ; 

 plumage above dull green gold; on the jaw an obscure pale streak ; 

 chin and throat pale rufous; belly dusky white, with a greenish 

 mixture ; vent rufous white ; quills dusky ; the two middle tail 

 feathers glossy greenish brown, the others fine rufous halfway from 

 the base, then greenish black ; the tips of all of them white ; legs 

 pale ; claws black. 



* See Voy. d'Azara, iv. p. 92. 



