BAR-TAILED H aMMlNG-BlRD. 291 



'Which are gold-green, is violet-purple, very glossy 

 on the throat and breast, but verging to velvet- 

 black on the other parts : the gold-green colour 

 of the tail, in some particular lights, appears 

 black. Native of Cayenne. 



BAR-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. v 



Trochilus sparganurus. T, aureo^mridist gula smaragdina, caudd- 

 forjicata nigra, rectricibus fascia aureo-phoenicea. 



Gold-green Humming-Bird, with emerald throat, and blacfc 

 forked tail with a gold-crimson bar across the feathei's. 



A MOST beautiful species : length nearly eight 

 inches : colour green-gold, but not very bright^ 

 except on the throat, which is of a golden emerald- 

 colour : wings brownish or dusky : tail long, and 

 strongly forked, the two exterior feathers mea- 

 suring about four inches and a half in length, the 

 rest gradually shortening : colour velvet-black, 

 each feather crossed by a broad gold-crimson bar 

 somewhat beyond the middle * : ends of the fea- 

 thers rounded : bill and legs black. Described 

 from an elegant specimen in Mr. Bullock's Mu^ 

 seum, and said to be a native of Peru. 



* In the exterior feather on each side the crimson bar is con* 

 «derably wider than in the rest. 



