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Ruby-throated Humming-bird
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Description: "Trochilus colubris. Ruby-throated Humming-bird. Tail forked, its feathers all narrow and pointed; no scales on crown; metallic gorget reflecting ruby-red. Above, golden-green; below, white, the sides green; wings and tail dusky-purplish. Female: Lacking gorget; throat white, speckled with dusky; tail double rounded, the central feathers shorter than the next, the lateral then graduated; all broader than in males to near the end, then rapidly narrowing with concave inner margin; tail with black bars, and the lateral feathers white-tipped; no rufous on tail in either sex." Elliot Coues, 1884
Source: Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1884) 459
Keywords: birds, ornithology, North American birds, Trochilus colubris, Ruby-throated Humming-bird, hummingbirds, hovering birds, migratory birds, solitary birds, fast birds, iridescent birds, khummingbirds
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