.308 HUMMING-BIRD. 



violet purple ; glossy on the throat and breast, but elsewhere verging 

 to velvet black ; wings and tail gold green, with a changeable gloss 

 of black on the latter ; legs black. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



26— WHITE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus leucurus, Ind. Orn. i. 307. Lin. i. 190. Gm. Lin. i. 487. 



Polytmus Surinamensis, Bris. iii. G74. Id. 8vo. ii. 22. 



Colibri a Collier rouge, Buf. vi. 59. PL enl. COO. 4. Ois. dor. i. 128. 



White-tailed Humming-bird, Gen. Syn.u. 757. Edw. pi. 256. Shaw's Zool. viii. 293. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill thirteen lines long, 

 curved, black, paler at the base ; plumage on the upper parts of the 

 body green gold, with a copper gloss ; beneath greyish white ; on the 

 breast a crescent of red ; wings dark purple ; the two middle tail 

 feathers green gold ; the eight others white ; legs black. 



Inhabits Surinam. — Linnaeus's bird had the two outmost tail 

 feathers black at the tips. 



27— RUFOUS-THROATED HUMMING-BI RD. 



LENGTH near five inches. Bill black, an inch and a quarter 

 long, the under mandible white, with a dusky point ; plumage 

 above dull green gold, the same on the lower part of the neck and 

 breast; chin dusky; across the throat a large, pale, rufous patch, 

 extending a little on each side of the neck ; breast as the chin ; 

 belly and vent ash-colour; quills dusky black; the tail in this 

 specimen wanting, except one of the outmost feathers, which is 

 dusky within, and white on the outer web, with two or three obsolete 

 dusky spots. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



