358 HUMMING-BIRD. 



the head gilded blue ; back glossy green ; belly yellowish red ; the 

 feathers of the wings blue, varied with purple. 

 Inhabits Chili. 



86.- GILT-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



LENGTH three inches and a half. Bill straight; plumage above 

 green, throat and fore part of the neck more brilliant; vent and over 

 the thighs white ; quills and tail above dusky, with a copper tinge ; 

 but the under parts of the feathers of the latter of a fiery, gilded 

 copper colour. — In Mr. Bullock's Museum. 



87— CURVE-BILLED HUMMING-BIRD 



Trochihis Recurvirostra, Stuainson, No. 21. 



SIZE of the last. Bill black, straight, near the tip both mandibles 

 recurved, the inferior one most so ; plumage in general green gold, 

 paler beneath ; chin, throat, and breast fine glossy emerald green ; 

 down the middle of the belly a stripe of black, sides over the thighs 

 white; tail even, the two middle feathers dull greenish blue, the rest 

 copper brown, but beneath glowing topaz-colour. This was in the 

 collection of Mr. Bullock, and seems to coincide greatly with the 

 last, or Gilt-tailed ; probably it may differ only in sex ; but how far 

 the formation of the bill may be a distinguishing character seems to 

 be uncertain. 



88— BLUE-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD. 



SIZE minute ; length two inches and a half. Bill scarcely one 

 inch, strait, black ; head, neck, and breast emerald green ; hind 

 part of the neck lilac blue; back brown; belly brownish white; 

 wings brown black ; tail rufous. 



