GIANTS AND DWARFS 



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the spring buzzing along the banks in search 

 of a place to form a hive, as can be seen from 

 the illustration, which is of the natural size. 



BEE HUMMING-BIRD. (After Gosse.) 



There is another humming-bird nearly as 

 tiny as this, the bumble-bee hummer of 

 Ecuador (Chaetocercus bombus), which you 

 will also see at the Museum, so that the 

 smallest known bird does not stand well 



