Green-crowned plovercrest, Stephanoxis lalandi, ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, and ruby-topaz hummingbird and nest, Chrysolampis mosquitus. Oiseau mouche de Delalande, petit rubis, rubis topaze. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse and Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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