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The Long-t ail’d Green Huming Bird. 
T he Figure of this Bird is of the natural Bignefs ; it hath a very 
long and broad Tail, in proportion to the Body, the Feathers 
being very firm and ftifF, not eafily put in Diforder ; the Bill is flender, 
ftraight, pretty long, and of a black Colour ; the Crown of the Head 
is Blue, or elfe the Bird is moftly Green ; the Quills are of a dirty 
purplilii Colour, except three Green ones next the Body ; the Co- 
verts of the Wings are Green ; the lower Belly, and Coverts under the 
Tail, are White, the Thighs dusky ; the Tail-feathers are of the moft 
Ihining Beauty that can be imagined, appearing fometimes of a fhining 
Blue-colour,' and upon a little turn will change Greenifh, then again 
into a Colour mixed with a bright golden Splendor j the Feathers, all 
over the Body, have fomething of a fhining golden Luftre, but nothing 
in comparifon with the Beauty of the Tail ; the Legs, Feet, and Claws, 
are black. 
This Bird was brought from ‘Jamaica by Capt. Chandler at Stepney^ 
of whom I procur’d leave to take a Drawing of it. 
T he upper Side of this Butter -Fly is black, having in the upper 
Wings two white Spots in each ; the lower Wings have each one 
large whi'e Spot, and a fmall round red Spot, befides little fiiint white 
Marks between the Scolops of the Wings ; the under Side of the Body 
is white ; the lower Wrings have each a large roundifii white Spot, bor- 
der’d on the upper Sides with Red ; the Extremes of the Wings of a dirty 
Colour, fpotted with Purple ; within thefe purple Spots is a Bar of Black, 
with a Row of fcarlet Spots in it ; the upper Wings have three white 
Spots, that neareft the Body border’d with a bent Bar of Red, the Spaces 
between the white Spots, Black, the Extremity of the Wing dusky, 
with purple Spots, and ■within them fcarlet Spots on Black. 
I was told by Mr. William Goupey, who lent me this Fly, that it 
came from the Fajl Indies j but he could not tell from what particular 
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