golden-tailed

No combination of gorgeous coloring can exceed that which is presented in the plumage of the golden-tailed humming or fly-bird (_Trochilus chrysurus_, Cuv.) which haunts the warm primeval forests, but it is still more frequently found in the pure atmosphere of the ceja-girded

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

More beautiful than all were the humming-birds, which, like flashes of coloured light, appeared and disappeared as they flew by us; and surpassing his brethren in gorgeousness of hues, was the golden-tailed humming or fly bird, numbers of which haunted every glade we passed.

Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847