. Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds . irds. Hummingbirds. (Family Trochilid^.) Hummingbirds are peculiar to the ISTew World. Aboutfive hundred species are known, but only one of them is Kuby-tiiroated ^^^^^ ^^^* ^^ *1^^ Mississippi. This is Hummingbird, oi^r Kuby-throat, the sexes of which areTrochiivs Iohibris. sometimes thought to represent differ-ent species. The Ruby-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 h
. Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds . irds. Hummingbirds. (Family Trochilid^.) Hummingbirds are peculiar to the ISTew World. Aboutfive hundred species are known, but only one of them is Kuby-tiiroated ^^^^^ ^^^* ^^ *1^^ Mississippi. This is Hummingbird, oi^r Kuby-throat, the sexes of which areTrochiivs Iohibris. sometimes thought to represent differ-ent species. The Ruby-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 wlien you may not hear thehumming of this tiny birds rapidly vibrating wings. The Ruby-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. Page 140. FIELD SPARROW. Length, 5*70 inches. Upper parts bright reddish brown and black;under parts grayish white; bill reddish brown. FLYCATCHERS. 121 ing its bill into tlie mouth of its offspring and injectingfood as though from a syringe. Some tropical Hummingbirds have songs worthy thename, but the notes of our Ruby-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 takesHttle or no part in family affairs after incubation far as known, all Hummingbirds lay two white e^gs—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, m
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