Bill subulate or awl-shaped; filiform, tubular at the tip and longer than the head; upper mandible forming a sheath for the lower. Tongue filiform, the two threads coalescing, and tubular feet formed for walking; tail composed of ten feathers, in general.
* Bill incurvate.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
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SYNONYMS.
Red; middle tail feathers very long; body red; head brown; throat golden green; rump green.
Trochilus Pella: ruber rectricibus intermediis longissimis, capite fusca, gula aurata uropygioque viridi.—Linn. Syst. 1. p. 189. 2. Gmel. t. 1. p. 1. 485. 2.
Trochilus Pella: curvirostris ruber, rectricibus intermediis longissimis, corpore rubro, capite fusco, gula aurata uropygioque viridi. Lath. Orn. 1. p. 302. 2.
Polytmus Surinamensis longicaudus ruber.—Briss. 3. p. 690. 15.
Falcinellus gutture viridi.—Klein, Av. p. 108. 15.
Le Colibri topaze.—Buff. 6. p. 46.—Pl. Ent. 599.
Topaz Humming-Bird.—Lath Syn. 2. p. 746. 2.