more. An in.^taiu'c camu to my knowledge \\Iicre twenty-fonr 

 ejiss Avere laid in this manner l)efbre tlie bird coidd be induced 

 to leave the liole which had been excavated uith so much 

 trouble. This bird is very beneficial to the farmer, as its food 

 consists almost entirely of insects destructive to vegetation. 



Ti;o(;iiill:s coluijuis — Liunfeua. 

 Ri BV-jiij;(>ATEi) H[':n.MiXG-HiKi). — How often do Ave sec- 

 this beautiful little visitor in the flower-garden, at one instant 

 })ausing and thrusting its tiny bill into some f^OAver, and then 

 flashing out of sight like a meteor, and as suddenly reap})ear- 

 ing. This bird is commonly supposed to suck the honey from 

 the floAvers Avlien it thrusts its bill into them ; but this is a 

 mistake, since it is inscctiverons, and is searching after insects, 

 not hone\'. .Vbout ihe first of June the ITumming-Bird begins 

 to build. The nest is built of soft down taken from the stems 

 of some of the different ferns. lOggs two in number, Avhitc in 

 color, elliptical in shape. Period of incubation fifteen days. 



Cii.KTi HA I'KLASciA — Unnwrn. 



CiiiMNKV Swallow. — Perhaps no other birds are so largely 

 beneficial in their habits as the Chinmey SAvalloAv, for in every 

 city, town, or Aillagc there are thousands of them through- 

 out the summer engaged day and night in destroying 

 insects, -ifar up in the sky you can sec them as well as Ioav 

 down close to the earth, and in mid-air just aboAC the trees, 

 everyAvhere, busily engaged in catdiing their insect food. 

 About the 10th of May they commence building. The nest is 

 placed in an unused flue of a chimney, and is built of nuid and 

 sticks glued firmly together and to the chimney Avith the saliva 

 of the bird. This forms a fii-m structure, in Avhich four or five 

 eggs of a pure Avliite color are laid. 



AxiitosroAirs vocii'ioui s — lionapaatc. 



W'liii'i'oouwiLL. — This bird is Avell known from its peculiar 

 son<i-, which is heard through the first h.alf of the night during 

 the mating and part of the breeding season. It arrives from 



