156 My Humming Birds and how I obtained them.


below 17° centrigrade or pneumonia may follow. Damp heat is

the best. Don't wait for a bird to hide his head under the wing

before you make up your mind he is ill and needs nursing. You

might well wait for ever. A Hummer cannot indulge in that attitude

be it to seek sleep or prepare for death..


The following is a list of the various species of Sunbirds and

Humming Birds now occupying my bird-room. Owing to lack of

space, all hens have long ago been discarded as undesirables, as

well as some Sugar-birds and Zosterops.



Humming Birds.



Eulampis jugularis

Eulampis liolosericeus



Guadeloupe.



Sunbirds.



JEthopyga seherice

A. nepalensis

A. saturata


Arachnechthra zeylonica

A. asiatica

Cinnyris chalybceus

C. afer


G. amethystinus ...


G. mariquensis

Antlirobaphes violacea

Nectarinia famosa



Transvaal.

South Africa.

South Africa.



Himalayas.


Himalayas.



India.



South Africa.



Various.



Gerthiola dominicana

Ixulus flavicollis



Guadeloupe.


India.



