THE 
LEAST HUMMING-BIRD. 
Generic Character. 
Bill slender, tubular, the upper mandible sheath- 
, ing the lower. 
Tongue very long, extensile; formed of two 
conjoined cylindric tubes. 
Toes three forward, one backward. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Brownish - green strait - billed HUMMING¬ 
BIRD, whitish beneath, with the exterior 
tail-feathers white on the outside. 
LEAST HUMMING-BIRD. 
Edw. pi. 105. 
Le plus petit Oiseau-Mouche. 
PL Enl. 276 . 
This little miracle of Nature is not distinguished 
by the peculiar splendor and variety of colour so 
conspicuous in many others of the genus, its gene¬ 
ral tinge being an obscurely gilded greenish brown 
above, and whitish beneath: the wings and tail 
have a cast of purplish brown : the colour of the 
M 2 female 
