. . thelargest from Patagonia. Allens hummer is found on the Pacific Coast, north toBritish Columbia, east to southern Arizona. Mr. Langills, in Our Birds in Their Haunts, beauti-fully describes their flights and manner of feeding. Hesays: There are many birds the flight of which is so rapidthat the strokes of their wings cannot be counted, but hereis a species with such nerve of wing that its wing-strokescannot be seen. *A hazy semi-circle of indistinctness on eachside of the bird is all that is perceptible. Poised in the air, gsa B
. . thelargest from Patagonia. Allens hummer is found on the Pacific Coast, north toBritish Columbia, east to southern Arizona. Mr. Langills, in Our Birds in Their Haunts, beauti-fully describes their flights and manner of feeding. Hesays: There are many birds the flight of which is so rapidthat the strokes of their wings cannot be counted, but hereis a species with such nerve of wing that its wing-strokescannot be seen. *A hazy semi-circle of indistinctness on eachside of the bird is all that is perceptible. Poised in the air, gsa BIRDS his body nearly perpendicular, he seems to hang in front ofthe flowers which he probes so hurriedly, one after another,with his long, slender bill. That long, tubular, fork-shapedtongue may be sucking up the nectar from those rathersmall cylindrical blossoms or it may be capturing tinyinsects housed away there. Much more like a large sphynxmoth hovering and humming over the flowers in the duskytwilight than a bird appears this delicate, fairy-like
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