AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 
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ORDER 
(b.) 6. Abdominales. Having the ventral behind 
the pectoral fins — the salmon, the trout, and most 
fresh water fish. 
INSECTS. 
1. Coleoptera. Mostly with horny bodies — bee- 
tles. 
2. Hemiptera. With four wings, folded together 
crucically or longitudinally, hard for one-half, and 
almost like parchment — the cock-roach, the grass- 
hopper. 
3. Lepiboptera. With soft hairy bodies, and four 
expanded wings, covered with coloured scales — but- 
terflies. 
4. Neuroptera. With four transparent, net-shaped, 
or lattice-like wings — the ephemera or day-fly, the 
water moth. 
5. Hymenoptera. With four transparent veined 
wings — the wasp, the bee, the ant. 
6. Diptera. Insects with two wings, (uncovered) — 
the gnat, the various species of flies. 
7. Aptera. Insects without wings — the spider, the 
scorpion, the crab, the flea. 
[In the above orders of Insects, Blumenbach has fol- 
lowed Linnaeus. J 
WORMS. 
1. Intestina. Long worms, without any evident 
external organs of motion — common earth worms, 
human worms, &c. 
2. Mollusca. Naked, soft worms, with visible, and 
often very numerous extremities — the slug, sea 
blubber, sea anemone, &c. 
3. Test ace A. Animals inhabiting shells, and much 
resembling those of the preceding order — the barna- 
cle, the muscle, oyster, and most of the animals con- 
tained in the sea shells. 
4. Crustacea. Animalshaving almost cartilaginous 
bodies; and in some cases, with a firm incalcareous 
crust — sea hedgehogs, sea stars, &c. 
5. Corrallia. Polypes and other zoophites inhabit- 
ing coral branches and similar structures. 
6. Zoophita. Naked, plant-like animals, without 
any habitations; also the animalculas of infusions. 
[Blumenbach’’ s Nat. Hist. 
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HUMMING-BIRD. 
TROCHILUS COLUBRIS. 
[Plate X. Vol. 2. Male and Female — size of life.] 
Trochilus colubris, Linn. Syst. i, p. 191, No. 12. — 
L’Oiseau mouche a gorge rouge cle la Caroline , Briss. 
Orn. hi. p. 716, No. 13, t. 36, fig 6. — Le Rubis, 
Buff. Ois. vi . p. 13. — Humming-Bird , Catesb. Car. 
i. 65. — Red-throated Humming-Bird , Edw. i, 38, 
male and female. — Lath. Syn. n. 769, No. 35. — 
From life.* 
Nature in every department of her works seems to 
delight in variety; and the present subject of our history 
is almost as singular for its minuteness, beauty, want of 
song, and manner of feeding, as the Mocking-bird is for 
unrivalled excellence of notes, and plainness of plumage. 
Though this interesting and beautiful genus of birds com- 
prehends upwards of seventy species, all of which, with 
very few exceptions, are natives of America and its adja- 
cent islands, it is yet singular, that the species now before 
us should be the only one of its tribe that ever visits the 
territory of the United States. 
According to the observations of my friend Mr. Abbott, 
of Savannah, in Georgia, who has been engaged these 
thirty years in collecting and drawing subjects of natural 
history in that part of the country, the Humming-bird 
makes its first appearance there, from the south, about 
the twenty-third of March, two weeks earlier than it does 
in the county of Burke, sixty miles higher up the country 
towards the interior; and at least five weeks sooner than it 
reaches this part of Pennsylvania. As it passes on to the 
northward as far as the interior of Canada, where it is seen 
in great numbers,! the wonder is excited how so feebly 
constructed and delicate a little creature can make its way 
over such extensive regions of lakes and forests, among so 
many enemies, all its superiors in strength and magnitude. 
But its very minuteness , the rapidity of its flight, which 
* The male Humming-bird, figured in the plate, was brought by a 
friend to the Editor, alive, — but in consequence of confinement be- 
came nearly exhausted, and on taking it from the cage, it was seized 
with paroxysms of fear so great as to become apparently lifeless; it 
however was restored, and remained the greater part of two days, sit- 
ting on a small twig, in the exact posture as drawn, during which time 
it was fed by means of a camel’s hair pencil dipped in dissolved rock 
candy, until sufficient strength was gained, when it took its final 
leave by flying out of the window. — [Ed.] 
f Mr. M’Kenzie speaks of seeing a “ beautiful Humming-bird” near 
the head of the Unjigah or Peace River, in lat. 54°; but has not parti- 
cularized the species. 
