336 HUMMING-BIRD. 



A.— Trochilus Tobagensis, Ind. Orn.'i. 316. Gm. Lin.\. 498. 



Oiseau-mouche de Tobago, Ois. dor.i. 114. 



Tobago Humming-Bird, Gen. Si/n.'u. 781. Shaw's Zool. viii. 350. 



Length four inches. The bill dusky, beneath yellow; head, neck, 

 back to the middle, and beneath to the belly, glossy green ; the rest 

 of the back, rump, and wing coverts, copper green ; across the lower 

 belly a white bar; thighs white; vent pale brown ; quills and tail 

 blue black, the last somewhat forked ; legs black. 



I received this from Tobago. M. Audibert thinks it the former, 

 or a Variety of the last. 



62— GUIANA HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Guianensis, Ind. Orn. i. 317. Gm. Lin. i. 498. 

 Oiseau-mouche de la Guiane, Ois. dor. i. 116. 

 Small green and crimson Humming-Bird, Bancr. Guian. 168. 

 Guiana Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 781. 



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THIS is little more than two inches long. Bill black, long, 

 and slender ; feathers of the neck, back, and upper edges of the 

 wings, beautiful pea green ; top of the head crested with a small 

 variable, crimson tuft ; the breast also is crimson ; the long feathers 

 of the wings and tail green, crimson, and dark purple ; the head 

 small ; eyes small, round, black, and shining. 



This, according to Mr. Bancroft, is most frequent in Guiana, and 

 peculiar to it. 



