HUMMING-BIRD. 339 



One similar, in a collection for sale, had the head and neck 

 deep green ; round the breast glossy ; lower part of the back white ; 

 across the breast pale green, the feathers with pale edges. Buffon 

 says it is the two middle tail feathers which are elongated, but in the 

 one we have seen they appear to be the two outer. 



67.— FAN-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH four inches and a quarter. Bill strait, about half 

 an inch long ; plumage in general green ; throat and breast the 

 same, but exceedingly vivid ; tail forked, the outer feathers on each 

 side two inches and three quarters long, broad at the base, lessening 

 by degrees for one inch and a half, then without any web for three 

 quarters of an inch, and finally expanding into a large fan, nearly 

 round in shape, and more than half an inch in diameter ; the rest of 

 the feathers sharp at the ends ; the legs are greatly feathered with 

 white down. 



In Mr. Bullock's Museum. 



68.— CRESTED GREEN HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus cristatus, Tnd. Orn. i. 317. Lin. i. 192. Gm. Lin. i. 498. Borowsk. ii. 



158. t. 24. B. Spalowsk. Vog. ii. t. 24. Gerin. iv. t. 402. 2. 

 Mellisuga cristata, Bris. iii. t. 37. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 35. Klein, 106. iv. 

 Oiseau-mouche huppe, Buf.v'u 22. PL ml. 227. l/ Ois. dor.\. 91. pi. 47. Male. 

 Crested green Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 783- Edw. pi. 37: Bird & Nest. Shaw's 



Zool. viii. 352. pi. 44. 



LENGTH three inches. Bill seven lines long, black; under 

 the bill a dirty white spot ; top of the head green, ending in a blue 



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