CHAPTER III. 



PHAON COMET HUMMING-BIRD. 



|HERE is a part of South America 

 which is, next to Thibet, the 

 ['mW highest country in the world. It 

 Y is a kind of plateau situated 



between two ranges of the Andes, and is 

 very much larger than England. Indeed, 

 it would take nine such islands as England 

 to make one tract of country like Bolivia. 

 I have brought you here, because in 

 Bolivia, and also in Peru, there are some 

 of the beautiful birds we are describing. 



The Phaon Comet is a creature of rare 

 and exquisite loveliness. Indeed, it flashes, 



