318 HtJMMING-RTRIfr. 



Inhabits Mexico ; the above description from Du Tertre. Seba's 

 account merely says, that it has a long bill, issuing- from a smalL 

 head, and bent as in the Humming-Bird.* The bill, however, appears 

 pointed in the figure. 



39 —ADMIRABLE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Thaumantias, Tnd. Orn. i. 309. Lin. i. 190. Gm. Lin. i. 489. 



G'uainumbi minor toto corpore aureo, Rati, 83. 6. Will. p. 167. Marcg. Rras. 197. 



Polytmus, Bris. Hi. 667. Id. 8vo. ii. 20. 



Mellisuga- Ronckje dicta, Seba, i. 95. t. 59. 5. Klein, 106. III. 



Le petit Colibri, Bvf. vi. 64 PI. enl. 600. 1. 



Admirable Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 763. Shaiv^s Zool. viii. 285. 



THIS is only two inches and ten lines in length. Bill eleven 

 lines long, black, beneath white ; colour of the plumage wholly 

 greenish violet, except the wings, which are brown ; on the lower 

 part of the belly a spot of white ; tail thirteen lines long, the two 

 middle feathers bright green gold, glossed with copper; the others 

 the same, edged with white; the outer one entirely white on the 

 outer web ; legs black. 



Inhabits Brazil, and other parts of South America. 



British Museum; from Petiver it was received by Linnaeus into the Syst. Naturae; (a) and 

 again, is to be found in the Am<sn. Acad. V. vi, p. 406. and from these authorities adopted 

 by Fabricius, (J) who, on the alleged authority of DeGeer, says, it came from America. — 

 But it so happens, that on careful inspection, it proves to be no other than the Papitio 

 Rhamni, or Brimstone Butterfly, found every where in Europe, having the large additional 

 blue-black spots artfully painted upon the wings, insomuch as to deceive, upon a cursory 

 view, most people. 



(a) St/st. Nat. Tom. i. y>. 765. Gm. Lin. i. p. 2273. (b) Fab. Sp. fits. T. ii. p. 50. 



* Minusculo e capitello rostrum porrigitur longum, incurvum, quali Mellivora; gaudent. 



