338 HUMMING-BIRD. 



65.— AURORA HUMMING-BIRD. 



L'Escarboucle, Ois. dor. i. 102. pi. 54. 



BILL black, seven lines long ; head red, the colour of an 

 amaranthus ; back and rump green brown ; throat aurora red, 

 changing to red ; breast and belly brown black ; under tail coverts 

 white ; lesser wing coverts green gold ; quills purple brown ; tail 

 rufous, with violet brown ends; wings and tail even ; legs black. 



This seems not unlike the Ruby-necked Species, but the tail 

 is rounded at the end, whereas, in the other, it is excavated in the 

 middle. 



66. —RACKET-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus platurus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 317. 

 ■ longicaudus, Gm. Lin. i. 498. 

 Oiseau-mouche a raquettes, Buf, vi. 23. Ois. dor. i. 98. pi. 52. 

 Racket-tailed Humming-Bird, Gen.Syn.'n. 782. Shaw's Zool. viii. 316. 



LENGTH two inches and a half. Body above green gold ; the 

 throat rich emerald green ; wings and tail brown ; the shafts of all 

 the tail feathers very broad, and rufous white : but what most cha- 

 racterises this bird, is having two feathers reaching at least ten lines 

 beyond the rest of the tail ; the elongated parts without webs, but at 

 the ends expanded into a fan-shaped tuft, having the appearance of 

 a racket. 



Described from the Cabinet of M. Mauduit ; native place not 

 known, probably South America. 



