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The Long-tail’d Red Huming-Rird. 
T HIS Bird is one of the largeft of the Kind I have met with, as well as the 
molt beautiful; it is here figured of its natural Bignefs: I believe it had loft 
one of the long Feathers of the Tail, becaiife I never obferved any Bird to have an 
odd or fingle Feather in its Tail, that had not its like or fellow. The Bill of this 
Bird is long, fiender, and bowed down towards the Point, of a black Colour ; the 
Head, and upper Part of the Neck are black, with a fhining Ltiftre; the Throat is 
of the mold fplendid Colour one can conceive* being Green fhining with the Luftre 
of polifhed Gold ; below this Green is a black femi-lunar Line parting it from the 
Breaft, which is of a Rofe-colour; the Back and Covert-feathers of the Wings are 
Red, but more inclining to Grange than the Breaft ; the Quills and Row of Coverts 
next above them, are of a dull Purple-colour; the Tail hath two long Feathers in 
the Middle, of the fame Purple with the Wings ; the Side-feathers of the Tail are 
redifh Grange like the Back ; the lower Part of the Back, Rump, and Coverts of 
the Tail-, are of a fine Green-colour ; the Legs and Feet are Black ; it hath very 
ftiort Legs* And four Toes, Branding three forward and one backward, as all of this 
Kind have. 
Ihe Little Brown Huming-Bird. 
T HIS is one of the leaft of the Huming-Bird Kind I have met with, being no 
bigger than the upper Figure in this Plate reprefents it; the Bill is long, 
Bender, a little bowed or bent downward ; the upper Mandible longer than the 
nether, of a dark or black Colour ; the lower Mandible is Flefh-colour’d toward 
the Head, black at the Point; the Top of the Head is dirty Brown, fpottcd with 
bright Brown; the Throat, Sides of the Head, all round the Neck, Breaft and 
Belly, are of a bright Bay or dirty Orange Colour; under the Eye is a ftroke of 
dark Brown or Black, and fbme dark Spots in the Middle of the Breaft; the Back, 
and upper Part of the Wings, are of a dirty brown Colour, intermixed with 
brighter yellowifh Brown; the Quills and Tail-feathers, (except the middle Fea¬ 
thers, which are brown) are of a dirty Purple-colour; the Legs, Feet, and Claws, 
black. 
1 think this is the only Bird of this Genus that hath no Green nor fhining Gold¬ 
like Luftre mixed in its Feathers. Thefe Birds are preferved in the Cabinet of his 
Grace the Duke of Richmond, They were brought from Surinam. 
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