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THE SUPERCILIOUS HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilus superciliosus. — Linn.® us. 
Plates XXVI and XXVII. 
Supercilious Humming-Bird, Shaw, General Zoology, viu. 
p. 284. — Latham's General History, iv. p. 293 Le Brin 
h\3,nc, Buffon . — Le Colibri a brin Wane, Lesson, Histoire 
Nalurelle des Colibris, PI. vi. Male ; PI. vii. Female. 
Lesson makes of these birds his “ VIII. Race, 
les Brins Wanes,” and separates them from the form 
of T. hirsuius, which Immediately precedes them. 
By i\Ir Swainson they are united under his group 
Phsethornus, constituting his third division among the 
Trochilidee. As a group we do not see how they can 
be separated, and even if an after division should be 
attempted, according to Lesson’s characters the fe- 
male of the one would enter into a different section. 
Boi6, again, seems to have made his genus Glaucis 
from them, and it is under either that or Mr Swain- 
son’s title that they should now stand ; that gentle- 
man is of opinion that it is by these that the Hum- 
ming-Birds will unite with the Promeropida:. We 
shall proceed to describe what seems to be known as 
distinct species among them. 
The bill of the Supercilious Humming-Bird is long 
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