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in proportion, and the quills reach to the end of it ; but in the Curve- 

 winged, the tail is so long, and the quills so short, as only to reach 

 to about one-third : independent of two or three of the outer tail 

 feathers being - white, the whole of their length ; which, in the 

 Broad-shafted, are only so for half way from the tip ; also in the 

 Curved-winged, supposed to be a complete bird, the chin and 

 throat are of a fine blue colour. 



In the elegant Museum of Mr. Bullock, I observed two Humming- 

 Birds, with the shafts of the three outer quills broad. In the first, 

 which is five inches long, the bill is a trifle bent ; plumage in general 

 green ; from the chin to the breast fine, deep, glossy blue ; shafts of 

 the three outer quills broad, flattened, and bent ; the two middle tail 

 feathers green ; the others rufous, with the ends steel-coloured. 



The other with the bill more strait, one inch long ; the plumage 

 green, beneath ash grey; the two middle tail feathers are green ; the 

 others deep blue, with a gloss of steel ; the three outmost with greyish 

 white ends, the exterior having most white : in this the shafts of the 

 quills are more broad, and stouter than in others of the Genus, but 

 neither flattened, curved, nor bent ; probably a female. 



48.— SATIN-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH full five inches. Bill one inch long, and black ; the 



general colour of the plumage black, with a greenish gloss on the 



wing, rump, and tail coverts ; sides over the thighs, and vent white, 



communicating with each other; under tail coverts black; the quills 



dusky black; the two middle tail feathers black ; the four others, on 



each side, pure satin white, with the ends violet black ; in shape the 



tail is hollowed out in the middle, as in the White-bellied Species, 



and the wings, when closed, reach rather beyond the end of it; the 



legs black. 



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