354 HUMMING-BIRD. 



carmine; back brown, with some trifling reflections of gold; forehead, 

 throat, and breast gold green, but each feather bordered with white 

 at the tip ; making it appear gilded grey ; belly brown, in some 

 lights mixed with gold ; wings brown ; lower belly, and under tail 

 coverts white; quills brown, with a slight tinge of violet black; 

 legs yellowish. 



Where it inhabits is unknown : it is considered as a species not 

 hitherto described ; but is probably a young bird. 



80.— LONG-BILLED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus superbus, Striped-cheeked Humming-Bird, Nat. Misc. Vol. 18. pi. 517. 

 Oiseau-mouche a long bee, Oil. dor. i. 107. pi. 59. 

 Superb Humming-Bird, Shaw's. Zovl. viii. 323. pi. 41. f. 2. 



LENGTH four inches and a quarter. Bill one inch and a quarter, 

 straight, dusky ; crown and hind head blue ; beneath the eye a broad 

 black streak, and under that one of white, both growing broader as 

 they pass backwards ; chin and throat fine carmine-colour, the feathers 

 full, appearing enlarged ; from thence to the vent grey, the last nearly 

 white ; plumage in general on the upper parts gold green ; quills 

 dusky ; the two middle tail feathers wholly gold green, the others 

 only so on the outer webs ; the outmost has a white spot on both 

 webs at the tip, the next on the inner web only, and the third on 

 the outer ; legs black. 



In one of these at General Davies's, there was no black streak 

 beneath the eye, but only one of white, and a spot of the same behind 

 the eye, with two only of the tail feathers tipped with white. 



In another, the crown and hindhead were sapphire and blue; 

 through the eyes a streak of white ; chin and throat purple red, very 

 polished, and brilliant, and the feathers projecting as in the other ; 

 throat and breast pale ash, or fine muddy grey ; back, wing coverts, 

 and tail dull green. The above seem to be Varieties of the male. 



