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London. Published as the Act directs, by E. Donovan & Mess.rs Simpkin & Marshall, Dec.r 1 1822.
ORNITHOLOGY.
PLATE XXV.
TROCHILUS ORNATUS
TUFTED-NECK HUMMING BIRD.
Order
Picæ.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Bill subulate or awl-shaped; filiform, tubular at the tip, 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 straight.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Golden green, beneath glossy brown, crest rufous; and on each side, below the ears, a tuft of elongated rufous feathers with a green spot at the tip of each.