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them, found that after a week or two they would droop, and seem 
about to die. Then he would let them out, and they would dart off 
for a few hours, always coming back, however. On watching them 
very closely he found that they spent the time in hunting spiders, 
and after one good meal of them, they were ready to return to 
honey diet for another two weeks. 
The bill of the Humming Bird is a very curious thing. In each 
variety it is shaped to suit the flower on which it feeds. Thus 
some are long and straight, others are gently curved, and still 
others curved almost into the shape of a sickle. Every kind, how- 
ever, is pointed at the end. The tongue is stranger still— it is very 
