208 THE RUBY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. 



bouquet. It gives the flowers a passing notice, 

 and is gone ere you can well behold it. 



When the season grows late, and the evenings 

 are cool, the Humming-Bird can find many places 

 of refuge. 



It enters the hothouse or conservatory, and uses 

 it for a sleeping-room ; going thence in the morn- 

 ing, and returning at night. When the season 

 gets later still, the Humming-Bird disappears 

 altogether. 



Cold is very dreadful to this child of the 

 Tropics. Sun and heat are necessary to its 

 existence. If deprived of them it dies. 



A Humming-Bird was once put into a cage, and 

 placed in a shady room. The weather was cool, 

 and the poor little bird, after fluttering about for 

 a time, fell down as if stupified, It lay with its 

 eyes closed, and giving no signs of life. The 

 owner of the bird carried it out of doors, and 

 placed it in the sun. 



Quickly a change was observed. The bird 

 began to breathe more freely ; its eyes opened, 

 and even sparkled with their usual brilliancy. 



