. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . ngbirds. (Family Trochilid^.) Hummingbirds are peculiar to the New World. About five hundred species are known, but only one of them is Euby-throated ^^^^^ ®^^* ^f the Mississippi. This is Hummingbird, Our Kuby-throat, the sexes of which are TrocUius eoi-ubris. sometimes thought to represent difEer- piate XXIX. g^^ species. The Euby-throat wintersas far south as Central America, but about May 1 wemay expect him to return to us, for he is as regular inhis migrations as though his wings measured a foot anda half instead of an inch and a hal
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . ngbirds. (Family Trochilid^.) Hummingbirds are peculiar to the New World. About five hundred species are known, but only one of them is Euby-throated ^^^^^ ®^^* ^f the Mississippi. This is Hummingbird, Our Kuby-throat, the sexes of which are TrocUius eoi-ubris. sometimes thought to represent difEer- piate XXIX. g^^ species. The Euby-throat wintersas far south as Central America, but about May 1 wemay expect him to return to us, for he is as regular inhis migrations as though his wings measured a foot anda half instead of an inch and a half in length. If youwould have him visit you, plant honeysuckle and trum-pet flowers about your piazza, and while they are bloom-ing there will be few days when you may not hear thehumnaing of this tiny birds rapidly vibrating wings. The Kuby-throat feeds on insects as well as on thejuices of flowers, and when you see him probing a corollahe is quite as likely to be after the one as the other. Theyoung are fed by regurgitation, the parent bird insert-. PlATE XLIII. FIELD SPARROW. Page 140. Length, 5-70 inches. Upper parts bright reddish bro-vm and blaclc;under parts grayish white; bill reddish brown. FLYCATCHERS. 121 ing its bill into the moutli of its offspring and injectingfood as though from a syringe. Some tropical Hummingbirds have songs worthy thename, but the notes of our Kuby-throat are a meresqueak, sometimes prolonged into a twitter. Under any circumstances a Hummingbirds nest ex-cites admiration. But if you would appreciate its fairylikebeauty, find one where the birds have placed it, probablyon the horizontal limb of a birch. Doubtless it will beoccupied by the female, for it seems that the male takeslittle or no part in family affairs after incubation far as known, all Plummingbirds lay two white eggs—frail, pearly ellipses, that after fourteen days incuba-tion develop into a tangle of tiny dark limbs and bodies,which no one would think of calling birds
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