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56— RUBY-CRESTED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trocbilus elatus, Ind. Orn. i. 316. Lin. i. 192. Gm. Lin. i. 499. 

 Mellisuga Americana gutture topazino, Bris. iii. 697. Id. 8vo. ii. 30. 

 Florisuga, aut mellifera, Seba, i. t. 68. f. 7. 8.— the birds with their nests. 

 Regulus Indicus, Frisch, t. 24. 

 Oiseau-mouche a gorge topaze, PI. enl. 640. 1. 



Ruby-crested Humming-Bird, Gen. St/n. ii. 780. Edw. pi. 344. up. fig. Shaw's 

 Zool viii. 330. pi. 42. fig. 1. 



BILL black ; head crested, of a flame-colour, with the lustre of 

 a ruby ; throat like burnished gold, glossed with emerald ; body and 

 wing coverts dull brownish olive ; quills purplish ; tail cinnamon- 

 colour, tipped with black ; lower belly, and under tail coverts, 

 cinnamon ; across the middle of the belly a white line ; and the 

 bright spot on the throat divided from the neck and breast by a 

 dusky line; legs black. 



Inhabits Guiana, and Terra firma, also Cayenne, and Tobago. 

 This has probably some relation to the last, if not differing from it 

 in age, or sex. 



57— BROWN-CROWNED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus hypophaeus, Ind. Orn. i. 314. 



■ striatus, Gm. Lin. i. 495. 



Brown-crowned Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 776. Shaw's Zool. viii. 333. 



LENGTH three inches. Bill black, three quarters of an inch 

 long ; on the middle of the crown a spot of brown, reaching to the 

 base of the bill ; plumage above glossy brown, beneath dirty white ; 

 belly white ; down the middle of the throat, and neck as far as the 

 belly, a green gold stripe ; quills black ; tail cinnamon-coloured at 

 the base, and dusky at the end ; legs black. 



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