“CAPTURE OF HUMMING-BIRDS. .- Sey 
them. ‘The French soldiers who shared in the Mexican expedition 
report that pictures made with the feathers of the Humming-bird are 
brilliant and effective. 
Humming-birds cannot be preserved in captivity—not that they 
Fig. 187.—Sapho Comet, 
do not become familiar and affectionate, but their extreme delicacy 
unfits them for restraint, for in spite of the utmost care that can be 
bestowed on them, they will die in a few months. In their habitat 
they are killed by concussion or with the sarbacane; if desired alive, 
they are taken with a butterfly net. 
