348 HUMMING-BIRD. 



73— TUFTED-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD— Pl. lxxvii. 



Trochilus ornatus, Ind. Orn. i. 318. Mus. Lev. p. 130. tab. 7. 



— — auratus, Gm. Lin. i. 497. 



Der Kolibri mit dem Halsschmuch, Schniid, Vog. p. 61. t. 49. 



Le Hupe-col, Bit/, vi. 18. PL enl. 640. 3. Ois. dor. i. 94. pl. 49. 50. 51. 



Tufted-necked Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 784. Shaw's Zool. viii. 345. 



THIS elegant and singular species is scarcely so big as the Red- 

 throated. The bill is pale ; the head, and all the upper parts of the 

 body are green gold ; across the rump a rufous white band ; beyond 

 this, to the end of the tail, brown, with a bronzed appearance, but 

 the inner webs of the feathers are rufous ; the under parts of the 

 body gilded, greenish brown, and the lower belly white; on the top 

 of the head is a rufous crest, pretty long; but what characterises the 

 bird is a tuft of feathers of different lengths, arising beneath the ears 

 on each side, each consisting of fourteen feathers,* the longest above 

 half an inch ; they are narrow, rufous, and at the end of each a 

 shining green spot ; these feathers the bird is said to erect as a rnff, 

 or depress them at will, and when in the latter state they fall on the 

 neck on each side; the forehead, throat, and fore part of the neck, 

 are of a rich and most metallic green-gold ; and if looked at from 

 beneath appear brown, and without gloss ; quills steel black ; legs 

 black. 



The female has neither the crest nor ruff, as the male ; the band 

 on the rump, and the throat both inclined to rufous ; the rest of the 

 under parts are also rufous, glossed with green ; the upper part of 

 the head, and the back as in the male, of a gold green ; the base 

 and tips of the tail feathers rufous, the rest green. 



* In one Specimen we counted eighteen, and in another twenty. 



