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 7/&^ Humming Birds, 



Numb. XLIX. 



TH E Long-Tail-Humming Bird is the leaft of all the Species of this Kind of 

 Birds, of which Naturalifls reckon nine different Sorts, and the leaft that we 

 know of found upon our Globe; its Bill is a little more than an Inch long, of a yel- 

 lowish Colour, the Pupil of the Eye black, the Irides yellow, the top of the Head 

 and Back of a dusky green inclining to a blew, with dark Shades ; the Throat, Breaft 

 and Belly of a beautiful green, the Edges of the Feathers of a beautiful yellow inter- 

 mixt with gold, the Wings of a dufky red, or copper Colour, with a Mixture of gold;, 

 the Feathers of its Tail were of the fame Mixture of the Wings, only darker; theie 

 Birds move their Wings with that fwiftnefs as hardly to be diicerned by the Eye, dar- 

 ting themfelves here and there in a Moment ; it will alfo poile itfelf by the help of 

 its Wings for a long fpace of time in the Air, as if it re (led and ftirred not, and io 

 being on the Wing, fuck the Flowers with its Bill, for it lights not upon them, 

 which I have obferved them to do many times in "Jamaica -, our Bee moth imitates the 

 Adions of this Bird the mofl of any thing in Nature by its fwift flying, darting, and 

 hovering on the Wing when it fucks the Flowers. 



This Bird I had by the Name of the Mango Bird, which I believe to be an impofed 

 Name: It is one of the Humming Birds; the Head, Back and Wings were a mixture 

 of copper Colour, red and gold interchangeably mixt, very beautiful to behold; the 

 Breafl, Belly and Thighs were a velvet black intermix! with a fliining green; the Tail 

 is a little more than an Inch long; the Feathers of a mixt Colour, of blew, red and 

 green ; the Bill and Legs are of a blewifh Colour. In the year 170 1, when I was at 

 Jamaica^ I took one of thefe Birds in the dufk of the Evening with her Neft, which 

 was built with Cotton in the Branches of the Phylick-nut Trees growing in that 

 Ifland, in which was two fmall white round Eggs as big as Peas; the long tail'd Bird 

 I copied from the natural Bird at Salter's Coffee-Houfe at Chelfea. 



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