CRESTED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus cristatus. T. aureo^viridis subtus cinereus, crista aureo' 



ccerulea acuminata, remigibus caudaque violaceis. 

 Gold-green Humraing-Bird, cinereous beneath, with golden-blue 



pointed crest, and violet quill-feathers and tail. 

 Trochilus cristatus. T, rectirostris mridis, alts fuscis, abdomine 



fusco-cinereo, crista ccerulescente, tibiis pennatis, Lin, Syst, Nat, 



Lath. ind. orn» 



Crested green Humming-Bird. Edw, pk 37. Lath, syn, 

 L'Oiseau-mouche hupe. Buff, ois» PI, Enl, 227. /. l. Viell, 

 pi, 47. 48. 



The Crested Humming-Bird seems to have been 

 first described by Edwards, who, in the thirty- 

 seventh plate of his excellent work, has given a 

 good figure both of the bird and its nest. The 

 total length of the bird is three inches. " The 

 bill, says Edwards, is slender, sharp-pointed, and 

 not so long as in most of this kind, of a black 

 colour, and very little bowed downward : the top 

 of the head, from the bill to the hinder part, which 

 ends in a crest, is first green, and toward the hinder ' 

 part dark blue : both these colours shine with a 

 lustre far exceeding the brightest polished metals, 

 the green part especially, which is the lightest in 

 some lights, changes from green to gold-colour, so 

 beautiful as not to be expressed by colours, or 

 hardly conceived in the absence of the object : the 

 feathers of the upper part of the body and wings 

 are dark green intermixed with gold-colour : just 

 beneath the bill is a spot of dirty white: the breast 



