76 RUFFED AND TUFTED HUMMING-BIRDS. 



A grasshopper makes this curious 

 utterance — not more curious than another 

 sound, like a hammer, that marks the 

 hours through the tropical night with the 

 utmost regularity. 



This watchman of the night is a frog, 

 called by the natives the '' Hammer- 

 smith." 



And in the scorching noon, weary and 

 parched with thirst, the traveller is some- 

 times mocked by a small brown bird that 

 repeats in his ears the tantalizing words 

 that mean, in the language of the country, 

 " Have you no water ?" 



