244 Humming Birds at the Zoological Gardens.


HUMMING BIRDS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.



The Zoological Society is indebted to Captain Albert Pam

for many very valuable and rare South American birds, but the

most wonderful collection of all arrived at the Gardens on May

27th, and consisted of no less than twenty living Humming



HUMMING BIRD.

From Mivart's Elements of Ornithology.


Birds, which were at once placed in two special cases in the

Insect House. These comprised no less than four species, all

from Venezuela; the Emerald Humming-Bird (Eucephala coernled),

the Venezuelan Amazilia Humming- Bird {Amazilia felicicz) ;

the Oenone Humming- Bird (Chrysuronia cenone), and Prevost's

Humming-Bird {Tampoiiiis prevosh).


Our members should not lose any time before inspecting

this extraordinary collection, for these curious, and in many ways

very insect-like creatures, are short-lived however carefully they

are tended. Sunlight seems to be iudispensible to their exist-



