HUMMING-BIRDS 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



HE Humming-Bird is a relation of 

 the bird called the Sun-Bird, but 

 is rather different in his habits. 

 He hovers over flowers, and sucks 

 the juices, without settling upon them. 

 Poised in the air, he peeps cautiously, with 

 his sparkling eye, into the recesses of the 

 flower, vibrating his wings so rapidly that 

 you can hardly see them. All the time, 

 he makes a low humming sound, that is 



