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In the young bird the whitish band across the rump is less con- 

 spicuous, and it has not the brilliant elongated feathers of the neck, 

 so remarkable in the adult; or at least they are very short. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



74.— RUFOUS-CRESTED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH three inches. Bill half an inch, strait, brownish dun- 

 colour ; feathers of the crown elongated, rufous, hanging a little way 

 on the nape; plumage above green, with a gloss of polished copper; 

 face round the chin and eye, rufous grey; throat splendid green ; on 

 the breast a rufous bar, or crescent ; below this dull green, and from 

 thence pale brown ; but the thighs, and parts between are white ; 

 across the rump a dun-colour bar ; lower part of the rump dull 

 crimson, with a tinge of copper ; tail coppery green, the ends of the 

 feathers dun-colour; quills blue-black, and reach three-fourths on 

 the tail ; legs black. 



One, supposed to be the female, is green above, with very little 

 gloss of copper ; all beneath dusky white, but the chin, throat, and 

 breast, have a tinge of rufous ; across the rump, as in the other bird, 

 a dun-coloured bar, but more narrow ; wings dusky green ; quills 

 and tail dusky. 



The above were with many other birds in a collection brought 

 from South America, and drawn for my use by General Davies, 

 many years since. We have put this down as a distinct Species, 

 not being able to ascertain any thing to the contrary, but from their 

 having the bar across the rump, they seem allied to the Tufted- 

 necked ; and if so, they may both be young males ; yet we are told, 

 that the young bird wants the white across the rump, as well as the 

 elongated neck feathers. 



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