. . 212 HUMMINGBIRDS. Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1S00, BY A. W. MUUFORO. CHICAGO. Qm ID ; GOATSUCKERS, HUMMING-BIRDS, ETC. 243 species have been found within the limits of the of the hummers are honey-lovers, and they extractthe sweetest juices of the flowers. The soft susurrations of their wings as they poiseabove the flowers, inserting their long beaks into tubes ofnectar, announce their presence. The nests of the humming-birds are of cup shape andturban shape, are composed chiefly of plant-down, inter-woven and bound togeth
. . 212 HUMMINGBIRDS. Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1S00, BY A. W. MUUFORO. CHICAGO. Qm ID ; GOATSUCKERS, HUMMING-BIRDS, ETC. 243 species have been found within the limits of the of the hummers are honey-lovers, and they extractthe sweetest juices of the flowers. The soft susurrations of their wings as they poiseabove the flowers, inserting their long beaks into tubes ofnectar, announce their presence. The nests of the humming-birds are of cup shape andturban shape, are composed chiefly of plant-down, inter-woven and bound together with spider webs and decoratedwith lichens and mosses. Usually the nest is saddled upon ahorizontal or slanting branch or twig. Dwelling in the snowy regions of the Andes are thelittle gems called Hill-stars, says Leander S. Keyser,which build a structure as large as a mans head, at thetop of which there is a small cup-shaped depression. Inthese dainty structures the eggs are laid, lying like gems inthe bottom of the cups, and here the little ones are of them look more like bugs than birds when theyfirst come from
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