. The Avicultural magazine. Birds; Cage birds. 244 Humming Birds at the Zoological Gardens. HUMMING BIRDS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Zoological Society is indebted to Captain Albert Pam for many very valuable and rare South American birds, but the most wonderful collection of all arrived at the Gardens on May 27th, and consisted of no less than twenty living Humming. HUMMING BIRD. From Mivart's Elements of Ornithology. Birds, which were at once placed in two special cases in the Insect House. These comprised no less than four species, all from Venezuela; the Emerald Humming-Bird (Eucephala
. The Avicultural magazine. Birds; Cage birds. 244 Humming Birds at the Zoological Gardens. HUMMING BIRDS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Zoological Society is indebted to Captain Albert Pam for many very valuable and rare South American birds, but the most wonderful collection of all arrived at the Gardens on May 27th, and consisted of no less than twenty living Humming. HUMMING BIRD. From Mivart's Elements of Ornithology. Birds, which were at once placed in two special cases in the Insect House. These comprised no less than four species, all from Venezuela; the Emerald Humming-Bird (Eucephala coernled), the Venezuelan Amazilia Humming-Bird {Amazilia felicicz); the Oenone Humming-Bird (Chrysuronia cenone), and Prevost's Humming-Bird {Tampoiiiis prevosh). Our members should not lose any time before inspecting this extraordinary collection, for these curious, and in many ways very insect-like creatures, are short-lived however carefully they are tended. Sunlight seems to be iudispensible to their exist-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Avicultural Society. [Ascot, Berkshire, etc. : Avicultural Society, etc. ]
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