How to Attract the Birds 

 A FEW WONDERFUL TRAVELERS 



That it may have the entire field to itself and 

 escape the keen competition of hosts of tropical 

 relatives for the nectar and minute insects in the 

 deep-tubed, brilliant flowers that please him best, 

 we have seen that the ruby-throated humming-bird 



"A lean foraging ground" 



travels from Central America, or beyond, to Lab- 

 rador and back again every summer of its inces- 

 santly active little life. Think what the journey 

 from Yucatan even to New England must mean 

 for a creature so tiny that its outstretched wings 

 measure barely two inches across ! It is the smallest 

 bird we have. Then what must be the size of the 

 body itself beneath its dress of feathers? Wherein 



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