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HUMMING-BIRD. 
brain was in large quantity, and very thin; the tongue, from the 
tip to an extent equal with the length of the bill, was perforated, 
forming two closely attached parallel and cylindrical tubes; the 
other extremities of the tongue corresponded exactly to those 
of the Woodpecker, passing up the hind head, and reaching to 
the base of the upper mandible. These observations were veri- 
fied in five different subjects, all of whose stomachs contained 
fragments of insects, and some of them whole ones. 
