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^he natives of Brazil seem much struck 

 with the Hkeness we are speaking of. 

 They believe that the moth turns into ths 

 bird, and that the bird was first a moth. 

 They tried to impress their fancy on a 

 naturalist who was visiting that part of 

 the world. 



" Look," they said to him ; '' their heads 

 are the same, and so are their tails." 



The naturalist found it impossible to 

 argue them out of this belief. 



Even an English gentleman once stoutly 

 maintained that he had seen a Humming- 

 Bird in England. For one species of the 

 hawk-moth is found in our own country ; 

 and you may see it whirling and hovering 

 and darting about in our gardens. The 

 gentleman had seen the moth, and had 

 mistaken it for a Humming- Bird. 



The orange-groves, in those sunny lands 

 where the Humming-Birds live, are covered 

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