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of the fize of a pea. Both male and 

 female alternately affift each other in 

 the work of incubation, which lafts the 

 fpace of twelve days. Their whole food 

 feems toconfifi only of honey-dew and 

 the juice of flowers. 



The Humming Bird is diftinguiflied 

 by a fabulated thread-like crooked bill, 

 longer than the head, the upper man- 

 dible being a fheath to the lower, and 

 the tongue is like a thread, forked and 

 tubulous. 



The Black Trocbilus, or Humming 

 Bird, is the fmalleft of the whole tribe, 

 being not bigger than the top of a 

 man's ringer ; and from the head to the 

 end of the tail not more than an inch 

 and an half in length. The bill is black 

 and ftreight, except near its point, 

 where it has a fmall bends its length 

 }$ about fix lines, and the fize is equal 



to 



