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f. A Q^ery put by Dr. N. Grew, concerning the 
Food of the Humming Bird; occafioned by 
the Defcription of it in the TranfaBions. 
Numb. 200. 
SIR, 
Since I (hewed you the Defcription of the Humming 
Bird, with the Letter in which it came to me: I 
learn, that Mr. Hamerjly of Coventry is the Au- 
thor of it. You fee it is believed he feeds on fbme 
Juice he fucks off, or out of Flowers. It was believed for 
a long while, that the Bird of Paradice had no Legs. 
Whether may not this Bird rather feed on finall Infers, 
whereon many Birds feed, fome whereof lie in the bot- 
tom of moft Flowers, and for which, this Bird hath a 
Bill ? W hereas a Bee that fucks hatka Siphon or hollow 
Probe. In fhort, the Bird ihould beopen'd: And fo it 
will appear, either that he hath Entrails fitted only for 
Liquids ; or the fame fort of Stomachs and Guts as > 
other Birds, containing the fame fort of folid Food 
IL Some Ob fen nations made by Mr. Pafchall, on 
the Motions of "Difeafes, and on the Births 
and Deaths of Men, and other Animals in 
different times of the "Nw^/^^y. 
SOme Months fince I fell into a Sufpicion, that the 
Caufes of Tides at Sea do alfb continually exert 
their Power in other places, though the Effeds thereof 
may 
