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as a chickadee clin<;s to a twii;-. Tlie wliite blossoms, 

 tlie hirds, — red, oianoe, black, and yellow, — and the 

 hlne skv beyond, formed a most beautiful sioht, which, 

 from our darkened point of view below, showed to the 

 best advantage. 



One more bird must be added to the list of those 

 which appeared more especially in the early morninj^ 

 — the Fork-tailed or Golden-backed Hummingbirds. 

 The acacias growing thickly about our camp were 

 covered with masses of sweet-scented ])ea-l)lossoms, and 

 here scores of these humminobirds delij>hted to find 

 their food, shooting back and forth or perching for 

 an instant to arrange some microscopic plume. This 

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