The Allen Hummer 
Taken near Santa Barbara Photo by the Author 
HUMMERS IN CENTURY PLANT 
criminations, to an accuracy and intimacy of knowledge of bird life, 
which can come in no other way. Theoretically, the earnest student 
should be moved to search, irrespective of the trophy; but practically, 
he never does. Hence, it comes about that the ultra-sentimentalist 
gets to know as little of the practical psychology and inner workings 
of bird life as does the skin-man, whose motto is, “Shoot first and 
inquire afterward.” Without asserting the full recompense of his own 
bold claim, the writer may say that a certain cabinet in the Museum 
of Comparative Oology holds more of fairy treasure, of fragrant memory, 
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