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CRIMSON'-HEADED BLUE HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus cyaneus, T. curmrostris cocdneo'serkeus, dorso cceruleo^ 



alis nigris. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Velvet-crimson Humming-Bird, with blue back, and black 



wings. 



Avicula Mexicana cyaneo colore venustissima. Seh* \,p, 102* 



t. 65./. 3. 

 Trochilus venustissimus. Lin. Gmel, 

 Le Colibri bleu. Buf, ois. 

 Crimson-headed blue Humming-Bird, Lath, syn. 



Described by Du Tertre in his History of the 

 Antilles : size half that of a Wren : head, throat, 

 and under parts, as far as the middle of the belly, 

 velvet-crimson with varying glosses : back blue : 

 wings black. Seba figures a bird supposed to be 

 the same with this, but measuring, according to 

 the figure, about five inches in length: the crown 

 of the head, and under parts scarlet, the back 

 black, and the wings blue : the bill long, whitish, 

 and pretty much curved. According to Seba it is 

 a native of Mexico. 



Monsr. Viellot, in the w^ork entitled Nouveau 

 Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelk, seems inclined 

 to think the bird described by Du Tertre to be no 

 other than the Trochilus jugiilaris or Red-Breasted 

 Humming-Bird, but this supposition by no means 

 agrees with the colour of the head in that species. 



