The Humming bird Volume 5 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...part of back. Tail glossy dark green. Spot behind the eye white. Throat metallic crimson. A line from mandible, and the elongated feathers of throat glittering deep blue. Underside glittering deep blue. Undertailcoverts dark green. Vent and spot on side of flanks white. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. Total length, 5m. Wing, 2. Tail, 2f. Culmen,. Female.--Upperside golden-green. Lateral and outermost rectrices tipped with white. Underside grayish-white washed sparingly with green on sides of breast and flanks. Total length, 4in. Wing, 2. Tail, if. Culmen,. The discoverer of this fine and rare species is probably Mr. Felix de Azara. Genus CXXIII. Lepidolarynx, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853. P-13 ORNITHOMYA, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 251. Type: T. mesoleucus, Temminck. Bill straight, twice as long as the head. Feathers of forebead advancing to a point on the maxilla. Tail forked. Rectrices narrow, median rectrices shortest, laterals slightly and gradually longer, outermost ones longer than the third lateral, and shorter than the fourth. Sexes unlike. Habitat.--Brazil. 417. Lepidolarynx Mesoleucus, Temm., PI. Color., pi. 317. Trochilus squamosus, Temm., PI. Color., pi. 203. Trochilus mystacinus, Vieill., Ois. Dores, t. Hi., pi. 21. Meliisuga squamosus, Steph., Gen. Zool., vol. xiv., p. 245. Ornismya temmincki, Less., Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 110. Meliisuga melanoleuca Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 112. Heliomaster mesoleucus, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 262. Ornithomya mesoleucus, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 251. Calothorax mesoleucus, Burm., Th. Bras., 1856, vol. ii., p. 339 Stripe-breasted Star-throat, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 262. le Lepidolarynx mediastin, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, t. ii., p. 284. Habitat.--Brazil. Mal...