NORTHERN HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus colubris. LIHNJEUS. 



PLATE V. 



Red- throated Humming-bird, Edwards, Pennant, Latham 

 Trochilus colubris, Bonaparte. The Humming-bird, Wilson't 

 North American Ornithology, pi. x. figs. 3 and 4 TL 

 Ruby-throated Humming-bird, Audubon, Ornithological Bit- 

 graphy, pi. xlvii. vol. i. p. 248 Northern Humming-Bird, 

 Northern Zoology, vol. ii. p. 323. Le petit rubis de la Caroline, 

 Omismya colubris, Lesson, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux- 

 mouches, pis. Ixviii. bis^ p. 151. 



" WHERE is the person, who, on seeing this lovely 

 little creature moving on humming winglets through 

 the air, suspended as if by magic in it, flitting from 

 one flower to another, with motions as graceful as 

 they are light and airy, pursuing its course over our 

 extensive continent, and yielding new delights wher- 

 ever it is seen where is the person, I ask of you, kind 

 reader, who, on observing this glittering fragment of 

 the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and instantly 

 turn his mind with reverence towards the Almighty 

 Creator, the wonders of whose hand we at every step 

 discover, and of whose sublime conceptions we every- 

 where observe the manifestations in his admirable 



