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THE KED-TIIKUATED HUMMING-BIRD. 





BEB-THBOATED HDMMlSG-BiBI* AKD NEST. 



jpptible to the nicest observer. Lightning is scarcely more transient 

 than its flight, nor the ghire more bright tlian its colors. 



It never fectis but npon the wing, suspentled over the flower from 

 wliich it extracts nourishment; for its only food is the honeyed juice 

 lodged in flowers, and this it sucks through the tnlx>s of its curious 

 toniriie. Like the bee, liaving exhausted the honey of one flower, it 

 wanders to the nsxt in search of new sweets. It admires most those 



