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LEAST HUMMING-BIRD. 



Tfochilus minimus. T. aureo'Viridis sescuncialis, subtus albidut, 



alis caudaque violaceo-fuscis. 

 Gold-green Humming-Bird, measuring about an inch and half in 



length, beneath whitish, with violet-brown wings and tail. 

 Trochilus minimus. T. rectirostris, rectricibus later alibus mar- 



gine exteriore albis, corpore viridi-nitente, subtus albido. Lin, 



Syst. Nat, 



Guainumbi minor corpore toto cinereo. Raii. sj/n. 



Least Humming-Bird. Ediv, pi, 105. Nat, Misc, vol, 12, pi , 



48Q, Zool, Led, I . pi. 62, 

 Le plus petit Oiseau-mouche. Buff, ois, PL Enl, 27^. f- 1 . 

 Viell,pl.64. 



The smallest of all the genus^ and consequently 

 of the whole feathered tribe. General length from 

 sixteen to seventeen lines, or rather more than an 

 inch and quarter : colour on the upper parts green- 

 gold, the quill and tail-feathers glossy violet-brown 

 or blackish, and the exterior tail-feathers edged 

 and tipped with white: under parts pale or whitish 

 grey in the male, and dusky grey in the female. 

 Native of several parts of South America, and of 

 some of the West Indian islands, particularly, as 

 is said, of Jamaica. It seems to have been first 

 correctly described by Edwards; for on the loose 

 general descriptions of Marcgrave, and repeated 

 by Willughby, &c. no dependance can be placed. 

 " The bill, says Edwards, and vv^hole upper side of 

 the head, neck, body, wings, and tail are of a 

 dirty brown colour, yet in the sunshine there is a 



