i86 THE BOOK OF BIRDS 



lie declared that in Trinidad Humming-Birds used to be so 

 common that they entered the houses, but now many 

 species were extinct. 



It is good, therefore, to know that for the last ten 

 or twelve years, it has been forbidden in Trinidad for 

 Humming-Birds and other birds of beautiful plumage to 

 be sold and sent out of the island. 



