HUMMING BIRD. 
Trochilus Mango, Ind. Oxd. i. p. 307. 20. 
Mango Humming Bird, Gen. Syx. ii. p. 758. 18.—Ia. Sup. p. 135. B- 
WV E have before related a circumftance of the poffibility of keep- 
ing Humming Birds alive for fome time, by means of fugar 
and water *; but this was in their own country and climate. In ad- 
dition to this, we have been informed, on undoubted veracity, of the 
following fact: a young gentleman, a few days before he fet fail from 
Famaica to England, was fortanate enough to meet with a female 
Humming Bird, fitting on the neft and eggs, when cutting off the twig, 
he brought all together on board the fhip; the female became fufi- 
ciently tame, fo as to fuffer itfelf to be fed with honey, and during the 
paffagze hatched two young ones; however, the mother did not fur- 
vive long, but the young were brought to Lygland, and continued 
alive for fome time in the poffeffion of Lady Hamond. Sir H. Engle- 
Jield, Baronet, and Colonel Svoave, both witneffes of the cirumftance, 
informed me that thefe little creatures readily took honey from 
the lips of Lady Hamond, with their bills: one of them did not live 
long, but the other furvived at leaft two months from the time of its 
arrival. Iam not pofitively certain that it is the fpecies I have here 
arranged it under; but I am inclined to think fo, from the above 
gentlemen comparing it with the figure of the bird pointed out to 
them, and efpecially as it is the moft common fpecies found in that 
aiignds S| 
HIS is a finall fpecies, being only two inches and an half in 
length: the general colour green: the top of the head furnifhed 
with a gloffy gilded green creft: quills and tail black. 
* Gen, Syn. ii. p. 771, Note §. Burnab. Trav. p. 17. Note *. 
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