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NORTHERN HUMMING BIRD. 



through the region of blooming sweets, his visits to 

 the Northern States are delayed to the month of May. 

 Still later, as if determined that no flower shall 

 " blush unseen, or waste its sweetness on the desert 

 air," our little sylph, on wings as rapid as the wind, 

 at once launches without hesitation into the flowery 

 wilderness which borders on the arctic circle. Accord- 

 ing to Richardson, this species frequents the fur coun- 

 tries up to the 57th parallel, and Mr. Drummond 

 found a nest of the Humming Bird near the sources 

 of Elk River in the remote interior of the north, and 

 we met with it on Lewis's River of the Shoshone, in 

 the latter part of July. 



Of Swallows, Mr. Farnham mentions the Cliff 



