. Western birds . mother often worked on her nest as shebrooded; sometimes leaning over and running her billover the outside and along the edges. It was the tini-est of buff balls, well concealed among the big sycamoreleaves. It is said that the nesting of this species dependsupon the abundance of flowers in the canyons and onthe hillsides. If the season has been a wet one in Cali-fornia there will be many blossoms, and, also, manyBlack-chinned Hummingbirds nests. The courting dance of all these birds is extremely in-teresting and varies somewhat with the different is always accompa
. Western birds . mother often worked on her nest as shebrooded; sometimes leaning over and running her billover the outside and along the edges. It was the tini-est of buff balls, well concealed among the big sycamoreleaves. It is said that the nesting of this species dependsupon the abundance of flowers in the canyons and onthe hillsides. If the season has been a wet one in Cali-fornia there will be many blossoms, and, also, manyBlack-chinned Hummingbirds nests. The courting dance of all these birds is extremely in-teresting and varies somewhat with the different is always accompanied by a noise that is heard at noother time, and which one learns to know from all in some canyon I have heard the high-pitched,long-drawn-out whistle like the sighing of the wind, andif my eyes were as quick to see as my ears were to hear,I would discover the male Black-chinned making a bigfigure eight through the air, as he chassed back andforth in his courting dance. The peculiar noise is made 56. 1—ANNA HUMMINcatlUD ON NEST. 2—YOUNG ANNA HUMMERS3—YOUNG ANNA HUMMINGBIRDS.
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