"""•■:*: TWO BIRD-LOVERS IN MEXICO M 



FORK-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD 



as a chickadee clings to a twig. The white blossoms, 

 the birds, — red, orange, black, and yellow, — and the 

 blue sky beyond, formed a most beautiful sight, which, 

 from our darkened point of view below, showed to the 

 best advantage. 



One more bird must be added to the list of those 

 which appeared more especially in the early morning 

 — the Fork-tailed or Golden-backed Hummingbirds. 

 The acacias growing thickly about our camp were 

 covered with masses of sweet-scented pea-blossoms, and 

 here scores of these hummingbirds delighted to find 

 their food, shooting back and forth or perching for 

 an instant to arrange some microscopic plume. This 

 -K^ 150 #» 



