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tongue in tli-- nianiKi- of aM|e Motli, and dart- 

 ing oil with the in -notion < Hr- least 

 apprehension of danger. One of tin- mo.st eom- 

 inoii, as well as one of the most beautiful of all 

 tin- Humming-birds is t!ic T me hit us Calabria or 

 red-tluoai< d Humming-bird, which is not confined 

 to South America, hut otv . in most of the. 

 northern parts of that coniincnt, and is 

 found as far north a> Canada. Its colour above 

 is ti! -id, with purplish-brown wings, and 

 tail, and beneath white, with the throat, to a 

 considerable distance our the breast, of the most 

 inten.se mul \i\id crimson, changing, on the least 

 alteration of pov.uiv, into the most brilliant gold- 

 colour, and again in some particular lights, into a 

 very dark or black i \s before observed, 

 it is found in mosi. parts of North America, and 

 whoever . iii summer-time, some of its fa- 

 vourite llowcrs in the window, as the scarlet Mo- 

 nanla, t 'nxe others, is sure 

 of bein^ visited bv innltitudes of tin s of 

 Humming-Bird. " The mo>t violent pas>i<ms," 

 writer, " sometii;, ,ite their 

 little breasts: they have often dreadful contests, 

 !i numbers happen to dispi, MI of 



