326 HUMMING-BIRD. 



B. — Jacobine vavie. Ois. dor. i. 56. pi. 34. Shaw's Zool. viii. 321. 



Bill black. Plumage above green-gold, mixed with blue towards 

 the rump ; chin and throat grey, blue, and white mixed ; lesser wing 

 coverts green and blue ; belly and vent white ; tail green-gold ; all 

 but the two middle feathers white at the ends, and rather shorter 

 than the middle ones. 



Probably a farther Variety. 



C— Length three inches and three quarters. Bill seven-eighths 

 of an inch, strait, pale at the base beneath ; plumage glossy green 

 above ; feathers of the chin and throat green at the ends, on a dusky 

 white ground ; breast and belly white and downy ; quills dusky 

 purple; tail steel blue, a little cuneiform the wings rather exceed it; 

 legs pale. — In Mr. Mc. Leay's collection. 



51— GREEN AND BLUE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Ourissia, Ind. Orn. i. 311. Lin. i. 191. Gm. Lin. i. 494. 

 Mellisuga Surinarnensis pectore coeruleo, Bris. iii. 711. 7rf.8vo.ii. 34. 

 Emeraude Amethyste, Buf. vi. 27. Ois. dor. i. 114. 

 Oiseau-moucbe a poitrine bleue, PL enl. 227. 3. 



Green and blue Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 766. Edw. t. 35. 2. Shaw's Zool. 

 viii. 322. 



LENGTH scarcely four inches. Bill ten lines and a half long, 

 and black ; head, neck, lower part of the back, rump, scapulars, 

 and lesser wing coverts, green gold, glossed with copper; upper part 

 of the back blue ; breast and upper part of the belly the same, with 

 a bright gold cast; lower belly and sides, thighs and under tail 



