HUMMING-BIRDS. 47 
i to a point. Upon 
this tip he places a lump 
of bird-lime, to make 
which he had collected 
the inspissated juice of the 
bread-fruit, and chewed 
fiUMMING-BIRD fIUNTERS. it‘ to the consistency of 
soft wax. Scattered over 
the savanna are many clumps of flowering bushes, 
over whose crimson and snowy blossoms humming- 
birds are dashing, inserting their beaks in the hon- 
eyed corollas; after active forays, resting upon some 
bare twig, pruning and preening their feathers. Cau- 
tiously creeping toward a bush upon which one of 
these little beauties is resting, the hunter extends the 
palm-rib, with its treacherous coating of gum. The 
bird eyes it curiously, but fearlessly, as it approaches 
his resting-place, even pecking at it; but the next mo- 
ment he is dangling helplessly, beating the air with 
