342 HUMMING-BIRD. 



an the upper parts of the neck, back, and wing coverts green ; quills 

 dusky; all the under parts from chin to vent white; legs dusky. 

 This latter I found in the British Museum. 



Among the drawings of Mr. Woodford are two birds, much 

 corresponding with the above. Bill dusky, under mandible white ; 

 plumage above green gold, beneath white ; through the eye a black 

 streak, and beneath this on the ears a blue spot ; tail pretty long, 

 and cuneiform, outer feather white. 



The other the same above, but the under parts marked with 

 dusky spots ; tail much elongated, and cuneiform ; base green ; the 

 two middle feathers black, the rest white, marked with a black bar 

 about the middle of its length ; legs in both dusky, not in the least 

 covered with feathers. 



71 —RUBY-THROATED HUxMMING-BIRB. 



Trochilus rubineus, Ind. Orn. i. 312. 



Mellisuga Brasiliensis gutture rubro, Br is. iii. 720. t. 37. 4. Td. 8vo. ii. 37'. 

 Le grand Rubis, Ois. dor. i. 60. pi. 27. 

 Le Etubis Emeraude, Buf.vi. 31. Ois. dor. i. 114. 

 ' Oiseau-mouche a gorge rouge, PI. enl. 276. 4. 



Ruby-throated Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 768. Shaw's Zoo/, viii. 340; 341. 



LENGTH four inches and a quarter. Bill eleven lines long, 

 and black; plumage green gold, glossed with copper on the upper 

 parts ; throat the colour of a glowing ruby, changing to green and 

 o-old in different aspects ; greater wing coverts and quills rufous, 

 with violet brown margins ; the tail is also rufous, the feathers with 

 o-ilded greenish brown margins ; the middle ones rather shorter than 

 the others ; legs blaek. 



Inhabits Brazil and Guiana. 



