SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 Humming Birds. 



No subject of Natural History has, since the 

 discovery of the New World, excited the ad- 

 miration of mankind more universally than 

 this diminutive favourite of nature; which 

 before the time of Columbus was unknown to 

 the Old World. Though it abounds more 

 in the warm regions, it is, however, dispersed 

 over every part of America and its islands, 

 and in almost every climate, for it is found 



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