They are called humming birds, from the 
noife produced by the motion of the wings. 
Their nefts, about half the file of a hen’s egg, 
are curioully fufpendcd at the end of the 
twigs of an orange or pomegranate tree. 
Tliere are alfo, the larger humming bird, 
long-tailed black-capped humming bird, lit- 
tle humming bird with crooked bill, green, 
and afh-coloured hummingbirds. 
I'he HOOPOE. 
H T S very handfome feathered vilitant, 
accoi'ding to the ingenious Mr. Walcot, in 
his Synopfis, juft publiflied in quarto, anfwers 
the following very curious and iiitcrefting 
defeription; 
On the top of the head is a creil, confifling 
of a double row of feathers, the higheft of 
which are about two inches in length, of a pale 
orange colour, with black ends ; the neck is 
of a pale i-eddi(h brown, the upper parts of 
which are crolfed with broad bars of black 
and white; the leffer coverts of the wings 
are of a light brown, and the lower parts 
white; the tail, which is v'hite, confifts of 
ten black feathers, which are marked with a 
white crefeent ; the legs are black. It is 
twelve iuches in length, and nintcen in 
breadth. 
A few 
