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BAR-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trockilus sparganurus Shaw. 
Plate XXIII. 
Tlie Bar-Tailed Humming-Bird, Trochilus sparganurus, 
Shaw, General Zoology, viii. p. 291. — Fan-Tailed Hum- 
ming-Bird, Latham, iv. p. 290 L’Oiseau-moucho snpho, 
Ornismy.a sapho. Lesson, Ilistoire Naiurelledes Oiseaua- 
motiches, pis. xxvii. and xxviii. 
This splendid species seems to have been fir.st 
noticed by Dr Shaw, in his General Zoology, and 
figured from a specimen in Bullock’s Museum. It 
is most remarkable for the splendid colouring and 
development of its tail, which Lesson compares to 
that of the New Holland Menura. It is composed of 
ten broad feathers, gradually exceeding each other by 
about half an inch, three quarters, &c.. and tlie last 
by above one inch and a lialf longer than the others. 
The colour may be said to be a brilliant reddish 
orange, with a brazen or metallic lustre of the great- 
est clearness, according to the various lights in which 
it is placed assuming a gi-eater tinge of red or yellow. 
The tip of each feather has a broad black bar, and 
the lower part of the web of the outer feather is of 
the same colour. When the tail is closed, the ap- 
