350 HUMMING-BIRD. 



55— RUFF-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD— Pl. lxxviii. 



Trochilus collaris, Ind. Orn. i. 318. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 75. 



rufus, Gm. Lin. i. 497. 



Sassineer Sasin, Cook's last Voy. ii. 297. Ois. dor. i. 110. pi. 61. 62. 

 Ruff-necked Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 785. t. 35. Id. Snp. 135. Arct. Zool. ii. 

 177. Shaw's Zoul. viii. 343. 



LENGTH three inches and a quarter. Bill three quarters of an 

 inch, strait, black; crown of the head glossy green gold, inclining 

 to olive ; upper parts of the body pale cinnamon ; between the wings 

 a greenish gloss ; throat and breast of a most resplendent ruby 

 colour, in different lights appearing glossed with olive-green ; sides 

 of the neck the deepest; several of the feathers of that part elongated, 

 and appear movable, as in the Tufted-necked Species ; wing coverts 

 dusky greenish ; quills purplish brown ; lower part of the breast, 

 and beginning of the belly, dirty reddish white ; lower belly and 

 vent pale cinnamon ; tail cinnamon, glossy, the feathers of it remark- 

 ably broad for the length; the two middle ones half an inch long, 

 the others lessening in proportion ; all of them tend to a point at the 

 end, and are black down the middle and tips; legs black. 



The female is green-gold on the upper parts, instead of cinnamon ; 

 on the throat are only spots of the glowing ruby colour ; breast and 

 vent as in the male ; tail coverts green ; tail as in the other sex, the 

 two middle feathers of one colour, the rest with a white spot at the 

 tips : the one supposed to be a young male, had the crown, back, 

 and rump gilded green ; under the eye a green brown line, spreading 

 on the jaws; belly brown ; wings and tail brown; throat coppery 

 yellow ; the long neck feathers shorter than in the full grown subject. 

 This species was met with in Nootka-Souncl, on the coast of 

 America, which is nearly in the same latitude north, as the Red- 

 throated Species is found ; but how far it proceeds to the south is 

 not yet known. 



