^80 SCISSARS-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. , 



very long and broad tail in proportion to the body, 

 are very firm and stiff, and not easily put in dis^ 

 order : the feathers all over the body have some- 

 thing of a shining golden lustre, but nothing in 

 comparison with the beauty of the tail : the legs, 

 feet, and claws are black." 



As the figure of Edwards is copied in the pre- 

 sent publication, it is unnecessary to add the de- 

 scription of the proportional gradation in point of 

 length in the tail-feathers. The British Museum 

 is possessed of a somewhat incomplete specimen, 

 of this bird, in which however the remarkable Justre 

 of the tail-feathers still continues in undiminished 

 splendor. This specimen, in a somewhat different 

 attitude, is represented in the elegant work of 

 Messieurs Audebert and Viellot. 



SCISSARS-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Furcifer. T. viridi-aureus alisfuscis, gula alba, pectore 



caudaque forficata viridi-casruleis nitentibus. 

 Green-gold Humming-Bird, with brown wings, white throat, and 



glossy blue-green breast and forked tail. 

 Bec-fleur a ^ueue en eiseaux. Azara, Par. 



Length five inches and a third : bill black and 

 slightly curved: throat milk-white, each feather 

 marked by a small black spot : rest of the neck 

 and the breast of an enamel blue with glossy re- 

 flexions : tail changeable blue-green : crown of 

 the head brown : cheeks, upper part of neck, rump. 



