3^2. GREEN AND BLUE HUMMING-BIRD. 



BufFon under the name of Oiseau-mouche a gorge 

 tachetee, and which, like many other specimens, 

 has suffered greatly by the fumigations of sulphur 

 which were formerly practised in that Museum as 

 a preservative from insects, but which, as Monsr. 

 Viellot very properly observes, have done more 

 injury to the plumage of the birds than they would 

 have suffered from the ravages of the insects 

 themselves. 



GREEN AND BLUE HUMMING-BIllD. 



Trochilus Ourissia. T. aureo-viridis, dor so pectore ahdomineque 



cceruleis, remigibus fuscis, cauda subcequali fusco-aurea. 

 Gold-green Humming-Bird, with blue back, breast, and belly, 



brown quill-feathers, and golden-brown tail. 

 Trochilus Ourissia. T, rectirostris viridi-auratus, rectricihus 



subcequaiibus fusco-aureis, remigibus nigris, abdomine cctruko. 



Lin, Syst, Nat. 



Mellisuga Surinamensis pectore cseruleo. Briss, av. 3. p. 7^1' 



L'Emeraude-amethyste. Buff, ois, 



Oiseau-niouche a poitrine bleue. PL EnL 227./. 3. 



Green and blue Humming-Bird. Ediv.pL 35, f, 2. Lath, syn. 



The American word Ourissia, signifying a sun- 

 beam, is applied by some of the earlier writers to 

 certain species of Humming-Birds, on account of 

 the splendor of their colours. Linnaeus applies 

 the name to the Green and Blue Humming-Bird of 

 Edwards, a middle-sized species, measuring nearly 

 four inches in total length, and of a coppery green- 

 gold colour, the upper part of the back, the breast, 

 and belly fine deep blue, with a shght golden gloss: 



