. A general synopsis of birds . %. ////////7 -i/jurrflh. HUMMING-BIRD. 785 green gold colour; and, if che eye is placed beneath, appear brown,and without glofs. The female has neither the creft nor the ruff as the male: the on the rump, and the throat, are both inclined to rufous : thereft of the parts beneath are likewife rufous, with a caft of green :the upper part of the head, and the back, are, like the male, of agold green. Inhabits Cayenne. Place. 56.+- RUFF-NECKEDH. B. Pl. XXXV. Description. T ENGTH three inches and a quarter. Bill three quarters ofan inch, ftrait, and black
. A general synopsis of birds . %. ////////7 -i/jurrflh. HUMMING-BIRD. 785 green gold colour; and, if che eye is placed beneath, appear brown,and without glofs. The female has neither the creft nor the ruff as the male: the on the rump, and the throat, are both inclined to rufous : thereft of the parts beneath are likewife rufous, with a caft of green :the upper part of the head, and the back, are, like the male, of agold green. Inhabits Cayenne. Place. 56.+- RUFF-NECKEDH. B. Pl. XXXV. Description. T ENGTH three inches and a quarter. Bill three quarters ofan inch, ftrait, and black: crown of the head glofly greengold, inclining to olive : upper parts of the body pale cinnamon:between the wings a greenifh glofs : throat and breaft of a modrefplendent glowing ruby-colour, in different fhades appearinggloffed with olive green; on the fides of the neck deepeft; feve-ral of thefe feathers are elongated on the fides of the neck, andappear to be moveable, as in the laft fpecies: the wing
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