A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . uets offlowers, and passes out by the opposite door or window. He feeds on thehoney extracted from Hewers, a ects. • The old and young, says Mr. Nuttall, are soon reconciled to confine-ment. In an hour after the less of liberty, the little cheerful captive willI
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . uets offlowers, and passes out by the opposite door or window. He feeds on thehoney extracted from Hewers, a ects. • The old and young, says Mr. Nuttall, are soon reconciled to confine-ment. In an hour after the less of liberty, the little cheerful captive willI suck diluted honey, or sugar and water, from the flowersheld out to it ; and in a few hours more, it becomes tame enough to sip itsfavorite beverage from a saucer, in the interval flying backwards and for- PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 209 wards in the room for mere exercise, and then resting on some neighboringelevated object. In dark or rainy weather, they seem to pass the timechiefly dozing or on the perch. They are also soon so familiar as tocome to the hand that feeds them. In cold nights, or at the approach offrost, the pulsation of this little dweller in the sunbeam becomes nearly aslow as in the torpid state of the dormouse; but on applying warmth, thealmost stagnant circulation revives, and slowly increases to the Belled Kingfisher. Belted Kingfisher.—This is the only species of its tribe found withinthe United States, where it frequents the banks of all the fresh waterrivers from Maine to Florida. His voice is loud, rattling, and flight is rapid, and is sometimes prolonged to very considerabledistances. He follows up the course of the rivers to their very fountains,and his presence is a sign of abundant fish. Mill-ponds, where the wateris calm, are favorite resorts of this bird, and its eggs are generally found inplaces not far from a mill worked by water. The kingfisher, for manysuccessive years, returns to the same hole to breed and roost. Its fle
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