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of bristles, which, like a brush, licks up the nectar. 

 In them as well as in the Sunbirds, it is capable of 

 being protruded to some distance from the bill. 



Trochilus,* the Humming-bird. 



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HUMMING-BIRDS (Trochilus Cornulus, T. Sparganurus, and 

 T. Ornatus). 



Among the gorgeous treasures which the adventur- 

 ous Genoese laid open to the view of astonished 

 Europe, by his discovery of the new world, perhaps 

 the most splendidly beautiful, and engagingly at- 



* trockilosy a wren. 



