RUFF-NECKED HUMMlNG-BlRD. 



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copper-coloured gloss : the quills brownish purple, 

 and the tail dark blue. Viellot*s specimen was 

 brought from Porto-Rico. Buffon describes his 

 Orvert as measuring only two inches in length, 

 and as having the belly white, and Mr. Latham 

 mentions a specimen of similar size and appear- 

 ance. It is therefore doubtful whether the Ormrt 

 of Buffon be the same with this; and a similar 

 doubt must remain with respect to the T, mellisugus 

 of Linnaeus. Monsr. Viellot however adds to the 

 description of his Oiseau-Mouche a gorge mrte 

 that the young birds have the lower part of the 

 abdomen white. The Oiseau-Mouche tout-vert of 

 Monsr. Viellot seems to be no other than the 

 species above-described, differing only in being 

 more uniformly gold-green, or with less appear- 

 ance of the blue gloss. 



RUFF-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trocliilus collaris. T. rufus, suhtus pallidior, vertice viridi'aureo, 



gula aureo-rubra pennis utrinque elongatis. 

 Rufous Humming-Bird, paler beneath, with gold-green crown 



and gold-red throat with the feathers elongated on each side. 

 Trochilus collaris. T. rectirostris rufo-testaceus, suhtus rufescentC' 



albus, vertice viridi-aureo, gula Jiammeo-rubra, lateribus pennis 



elongatis. Lath. ind. orn, 

 Le Sasin. VielL pL 6l, 62, 

 RufF-necked Humming-Bird. Lath, syn. 



The Ruff-necked Humming-Bird is of a rather 

 smaller size than the Red-Throated, to which it is 

 in some degree allied, and, like that species, is 



