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CHRYSOLAMPIS MOSCHITUS.

Ruby and Topaz.

Trochilus moschitus, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. 1. p. 192.—Ib. Gmel. Edit., tom. i. p. 494.—Vieill.
Ency. Méth. Orn., part ii. p. 570.—Swains. Birds of Brazil, pl. 30.—Pr. Max.
Beitr. zur Naturg. von Bras., p. 56.—Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming Birds, vol. i. p. 103.
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Mellisuga Brasiliensis, gutture topazino, Briss. Orn., tom. Tit, p. O99: ply soocvn, ee:

Le Rubis-topaze, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., tom. vi. p. 19.—Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. 1.
pp- 62, 64, 102, 103, 104. pls. 29, 30, 54, 55, 56.

L’ Oiseau mouche @ gorge topaze du Brésil, Buff. Pl. Enl. 227. fig. 2, et 640. fig. 1.

L’ Oiseau-mouche @ gosier doré, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. eos alee

Ornismya moschita, Less. Hist. Nat. des Ois. Mou., p. 166. pls. 52, 53, 54.—Ib. Traité d’Orn.,
p- 280.

Chrysolampis moschitus, Boie in Oken’s Isis, 1831.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 82, Chrysolampis,
sp. 1.

Mellisuga moschita, Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 253.—Gray and Mitch. Gen.
of Birds, vol. i. p. 113, Mellisuga, sp. 96.

Chrysolampis mosquitus, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 256.—Reichenb. Aufz. der
Colibris, p. 9.—Ib. Troch. enumer., p. 5. pl Dexa.

Trochilus pegasus, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 495°

—________ gujanensis, Ib., p. 498 ?—Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 317.

—_______ carbunculus, Tb., p. 498.—Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. 1. p. oles

elatus, Ib., p. 499.

Mellisuga Cayanensis, ventre griseo, Briss. Orn., tom. iii. p. 709. pl. xxxvi. fig. 4°

L’ Oiseau mouche de la Guiane, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. i. p. 116?

L’ Escarboucle, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., tom. vi. p. 28.—Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. 1.
p- 102. pl. 54.

Guiana Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. 11. p. 781.—lb. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 336?

Carbuncle Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. 1. p. 782.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 333.
—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 337.

Grey-bellied Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 3384 ?—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii.
p. 332?

Ruby-necked Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 779.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 330.

Chrysolampis carbunculus, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibris, p. 9.—Ib. Troch. enumer., p. 9.

 

pl. pecxxiit. fig. 4650.
Small green and crimson Humming Bird, Bancroft’s Guiana, p. 168.
Trochilus with a ferruginous tail, Bancroft’s Guiana, p. 168.
Aurora Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 338.
Ruby-headed Humming Bird, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 329. pl. 42.
Brown-crowned Humming Bird, Trochilus hypopheus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 333 ?

 

Ir any one species of this extensive family of birds be better known than another, it is undoubtedly the Ruby
and Topaz Humming Bird here represented, for it is not only one of those earliest discovered, but its beauty
is of such a character as at once to fix the attention of every observer. It is also one of the commonest of
the entire group, and plays no inconsiderable part in commerce, the capturing and skinning of the
specimens which are sent home by thousands affording considerable employment to the Brazilian slaves

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