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Thumb of a Man's Glove,with the Taper end 'fit down- 
wards, wherein were two Eggs of the bignefs of a Pea» 
of oval Form. Who can but admire to fee the whole 
Body, and all tha parts of a Bird folded up in an Egg, 
little bigger than a Pepper-Cora ? They feed by throw- 
ing their Bill and Tongue into the blofibms of Trees, 
and Co fuck the fweet Juice of Honey from them ; and 
when he fucks he fits not, but bears up his Body with a 
hovering Motion of his Wings : But for the relation 
that he is a curious finging Bird, I think it untrue. God 
in many of his Creatures is bountiful, yet not lavifih • 
for I did obferve them feveral years, but never heard 
them fing and the Peacock and Jay, though they be 
of a fine Plume, yet no Singers ; and fo I think this 
Bird is fo beautiful to the Eye, as not at all to pleafe die 
Ear. An Indian Soggamore 1 is not in his full Pomp' and 
Bravery without one of thefe Birds in his Ear for a Pen- 
dant. He is call'd the Hum-bird or Humming Bird, be- 
caufe fome fay he makes a noife like a Spinning Wheel 
when he flies, which I think rather an Imagination than 
real • for I have been many times very near them, both 
when they hover d and when they (jud fly, and I never 
heard any Noife ; befides, their Body and Wings are too 
fmall to ft r ike Air enough to make any Noife, But of 
this I fhall not be pofitive, becaufe fome Authors are op- 
pofite to me. It is a Solitary Bird : I never (aw but two 
at a time together, viz. the Male and the Female, they 
being cafily known when together, the Male being 
(bmewhat bigger than the Female. 
ff one take a fmali Birds Wing,and ftancf 4 or $ yards 
from a Candle (when dark) and open the Wing, and 
look thro' it at the Candle, he may fee a moll elegant 
Colour of red and green, which green doth fomething 
refemble the Colour of this Bird. 
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