THE WHITE-BOOTED EACKET-TAIL. 



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blossoms, and at the next moment it will shoot to the very summit of 

 some lofty tree, as if impelled from a bow, and leave but the .mpres- 

 sion of an emerald-green line of light upon the observer s eye Whde 

 hovering over the flowers the long racket-shaped feathers of the tail 



WniTE-BOOTEP Racket-taii, {SpaJhura Underv^oodii), Mai.e ask Femaee. 

 are in constant motion, waving gently in the air, "^^^^^g 'f^'^j^f Jf/^ 

 opening and closing in the most graceful "'^^'^f .■•• ^"*„f ,^" ^T^Ct 

 darts off with its peculiar arrowy flight, the tail feathers he straight 



behind it. 



