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RUFF-NECKED OR NOOTKA HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilus rufus Gmeluj. 
Plate XI. 
Trochilus rufus, Gmelin, edition of Systema Natura of Lni- 
nceus. — Ruff-Necked Humming-Bird, Latham, General 
History of Birds, vol. iv. p. 350. — Ruft-Necked Honey- 
Sucker, Pennant, Arctic Zoology, vol. ii. p. 177. — Selas- 
phorus rufus, Nootka Humming-Bird, Swainson, Nor- 
thern Zoology, vol. ii. p. 324 Lesson, Histoire Naturelle 
des Oiseaux-mouches, pis. Ixvi and Ixvii, and Supple- 
ment, xi. xii. and xiii. 
The discovery of this splendid species is due to 
our great navigator Captain Cook, while for its first 
description we are indebted to the now venerable or- 
nithologist of our present day. It is an inhabitant of 
the inhospitable climate of Nootka Sound, but ranges 
over a considerable extent, having been received from 
Real del Monte by Mr Swainson. 
Captain Cook made the following observations, 
when mentioning this beautiful species. 
“ There are also Humming-Birds, which yet seem 
to differ from the numerous sorts of this delicate ani- 
mal already known, unless they be a mere variety of 
the Trochilus coluhris of Linnmus. These, perhaps, 
inhabit more to the southward, and spread northward 
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