NIGHTJARS, SWIFTS, AND HUMMING-BIRDS loi 



year, to supply the millinery markets of Europe, whereby the 

 vanity of a certain section of the "gentler" sex may be gratified. 

 Somehow Humming-birds will not thrive in confinement, 

 though the attempt to rear them has many times been made by 

 those who have had great experience in keeping birds in captivity : 

 in no case have these fragile creatures lived more than a week 

 or two. 



