340 HUMMING-BIRD. 



crest, both shining* with the lustre of polished metal;* upper parts 

 of the body dark gilded green ; the under dirty grey ; tail violet 

 black, except the two middle feathers, which are like the back, and 

 all of them most glossy on the under side ; legs covered to the toes 

 with brown feathers ; toes black. 



The female is smaller, and without the polished crest; plumage 

 on the upper parts, and wing coverts green gold ; beneath very pale 

 ash-colour ; quills and tail as in the male, but the three outer feathers 

 of the latter marked with dusky white at the ends. 



The nest is made of a silky, or cotton-like substance, with pieces 

 of dead, filmy, or leafy matter, and about one inch and a half in 

 diameter : the eggs two in number, and white. 



This species is not unfrequent in various collections, and varies 

 in respect to the crest : in some it is wholly metalline, glossy green ; 

 in others the green ending in as fine a blue : whether these differences 

 are owing to age, or mere variety, is not said by any author. 



One in my collection is without the white spot under the bill, 

 from chin to the breast ash-colour ; and from thence to vent deep 

 dusky ; in other respects like the male. 



69.— CRESTED BROWN HUMMING-BIRD. 



TrochiJus pileatus, Ind. Orn. i. 318. 



puniceus, Gm. Lin.\. 497. 



Oiseau-mouche a huppe bleue, Ois. dor. i. 112. pi. 63. 



Crested brown Humrning-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 784. Shaw's Zool. viii. 354. 



SIZE of the last. General colour dusky pale brown ; quills 

 and tail darkest ; the crest as in the other, but wholly bright glossy 

 blue, more elongated and pointed. Described from a specimen in 



* In many the Crest is wholly metalline polished Green. 



