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THE RED-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. 



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jpptible to the nicest observer. Lightning is scarcely more transient 

 than its flight, nor the glare more bright than its colors. 



It never feeds but upon the wing, suspended over the flower from 

 winch it extracts nourishment; for its only food is the honeyed juice 

 lodged in flowers, and this it sucks through the tubes of its curious 

 tongue. Like the lx?e, having exhausted the honey of one flower/ it 

 wanders to the noxt in search of new sweets* It admires most those 



