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The Crested Huming Bird. 
T HIS Bird, with its Neft, is reprefented of its natural Bignefs ; the Bill is flender, 
fharp-pointed, and not fo long as in moft of this Kind, of a black Colour, and 
very little bowed downward; the Top of the Head, from the Bill to the hinder Part, 
which ends in a Creft, is firft Green, and toward the hinder Part, dark blue; both thefe 
Colours fhine with a Luftre far exceeding the brighteft polifh’d Metals, the green Part 
efpecially, which is the lighted; in fome Lights, changes from Green to Gold-colour, 
fo beautiful as not to be exprefled by Colours, or hardly conceived in the Abfence of 
the Objedt; the Feathers of the upper Part of the Body and Wings are dark Green,, 
intermixed with Gold-colour; juft beneath the Bill is a Spot of dirty White; the 
Breaft and Belly are of a dark, dirty, grifled or mixed Gray-colour; the Quills are of 
a Purple-colour, the Tail is of a bluifh black, fomething glofty on the upper Side, the 
under Side more glofty than the upper, which is not common; the Legs and Feet are 
very fmall and black of Colour. The neft is compofed of a very fine foft cotton or 
filky Subitanee, I could not tell which; there is in it a Mixture of two Sorts, the one 
Red, the other of a yellowifh White; it is hung between two little Twigs, as ex- 
prefs’d. The young Leaves and Rudiments of the Fruit were on the Branch, which 
by Comparifon with the Defcription, feems to be the Sweet Sop-tree. Sloari’j Natural 
Hijlory of Jamaica, Vol. 2. Page 168. fab. 22 7. The Fruit, when Ripe, is of the 
Bignefs of a Turkey § Egg. 
Mr. John Warner obliged me with a Sight of this Bird and Neft. He had it of a 
Captain who brought it from the Weft Indies. 
P 1 PHESB Flies , which I take to be Male and Female, were brought from China ; 
the Bodies in both are Brown ; the Wings in the firft Fly are border’d all round 
with black ; the upper Wings have each one large irregular Spot of Orange-colour, 
and a few fmall ones at their Extremities ; the lower Wings have alfo a pretty large 
Spot of Orange-colour in each Wing, and near the Body a large Spot of blue, encom- 
pafs’d with black, which appears partly covered by the upper Wings ; beftde thefe 
there are two Half-moon-like Spots, and fome dirty Marks of Orange-colour in 
the black round their Borders. In the fecond Fly, the Wings are border’d with dirty 
brown or Black; the middle Parts of both upper and under Wings are of a faint 
Yellow-colour; there are blue Spots furrounded with black near the Body, in the 
lower Wings ; in each Wing, both upper and under, are two Eyes, whofe Middles 
are blue circled round with black; the three little tranfverfe Bars which border on 
the outer Part of the outer Wings are very black; the lower Wings are bordered 
with two Rows of brown Scolops. 
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