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BIRDS. PIC^. 30. Trochilus. 
and vent glofTy-black, in tht female dirty-white fpotte<i 
black ; winf^s black, leller coverts violet, middle g 
greater black ; tail even. 
svi*' 
Omnicolor. Green mixed with almoft every other colour. Green-go< 
Inhabits Ceylon : near 8 inches long. 
"Cajfra, 
ci‘ 
Brown ; breaft and belly pale ; middle tail-feathers 
Capi ^ 
Inhabits the flape of Good Hope; fize of a thrufh. ,j(li 
Bin black, a little comprelfed and curved ; chfi pale> 
rough black hairs; yellowiflr-grecn; vent clear 
tail black, M’edged, as long as the body, fhe 4 middl'- , 
thers thrice as long as the rcli, 2 middle ones veiV 
wings black. 
30. TROCHILUS. R?'// Tubulate, filifofJJ 
tubular at the 
longer 
than 
tip, care.- , g 
head ; upper mandible Iheathing ^ 
lower: tongue filiform, the 2 . 
coalefcing, tubular: Jeet formed ^ 
walking. Humming-^^'’^ ' 
The birds of this genus are the leafl. of the feathered 
they feed on the neftar of flowers, particularly thole 
long tube ; this they extraft on the wiirg like bees, ^iC 
about the place and making a humming noife ; they 
gariovis, and build al'mall, round, elegant neft of 
w'itli the down of the great midlein ; legs and iill very ^ g, 
voftrils mirwxXf, fetjgvc miflile ; ta\l-feathers to; p' 
white, fize of a pea, which the male anfi female At o 
ternately, 
A. Bill curved, 
Paradifeus 'Rsi wings blue ; head crefted ; middle tail-feathers ''u, 
long. Paradtp ' 
Inhabits Next) Spain : 8^ inches long. 
Bill and kgs black ; xoing-coverts blue. 
Gakritus. Green-gold ; wings and tail brown ; creft purple. , 0 . 
Purple 
Inhabits Chili, Wings and tail varied with gold, 
