SxMALLEST HUMMING BIRD. 
This minute bird, is the Trochilus Mini- 
mus of Linnsus, Gmelin, and Klein ; and the 
Smallest, or Least, Humming Bird, of Sir 
Hans Sloane, Edwards, and Latham. Brisson 
calls it, Mellisuga: and Buffbn, who divides 
Humming Birds into Fly Birds and Colibri, 
names this the Smallest Fly Bird. Our figure is 
the exadl size of the bird j which, when dried, 
weighed no more than five grains. It was brought 
from Jamaica : and Edwards takes it to be the 
same species as that mentioned by Sir Hans 
Sloane, in his History of Jamaica ; which, 
weighed, when just killed, only twenty grains. 
It is thus described by Edwards — The 
bill, and the whole upper side of the head, 
neck, body, wings, and tail, are of a dirty 
brown colour ; yet, in the sunshine, there is a 
small gloss of a golden green colour, which 
sQ-ikes not the 'eye in common lights. The 
under side of the head, neck^ and the belly, 
are of a dirty white^ The outside feathers of 
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