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THE TUFTED-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilus ornatus. — Linnjeus ? 
Plate XV. Adult Male. 
Le Hupp6-col, Buffon, Planches Enluminies , 640. — ^Tufted- 
necked Humming-bird, Latham's General History of Birds, 
vol. iv. p. 348. — Le Hupp^-col, Ornismya omata. Lesson , 
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-mouches , pi. xli. 
Among the curious forms assumed by the plumage 
of the humming-birds, we have already seen various 
feathered excrescences, as it were, issuing from differ- 
ent parts of the body, and in none are they so singu- 
lar as in the tribe which our present species and one 
or two following represent. They are called by the 
French, Coquets ; and Lesson has formed from them 
a genus, Lophornis, including this with the three fol- 
lowing and some other species. In this bird, in addi- 
tion to an ample crest of clear reddish chestnut upon 
the head, the sides of the neck are adorned with tufts 
of narrow feathers, almost an inch in length. They 
are composed of from ten to twenty plumes, of the 
same colour with the crest, and are terminated with 
