. Cassell's natural history . , and flanks, wings and tail, are deep black, the latter edgedwith golden-green. In this species also the tail-coverts are of an unusual form, verynearly as long as the feathers of the tail, the webs very ample, loose, and legs, feet, and bill are black. The female, according to Le Yaillant, is entirely ofan earthy brown, paler beneath, tinted with olive on the wings and tail, the lastha%-ing the lateral feathers bordered exteriorly with dirty white ; the bill and feetblackish brown. The young resemble the female. * Vaillant, S. Oraiiga. f Nectarii
. Cassell's natural history . , and flanks, wings and tail, are deep black, the latter edgedwith golden-green. In this species also the tail-coverts are of an unusual form, verynearly as long as the feathers of the tail, the webs very ample, loose, and legs, feet, and bill are black. The female, according to Le Yaillant, is entirely ofan earthy brown, paler beneath, tinted with olive on the wings and tail, the lastha%-ing the lateral feathers bordered exteriorly with dirty white ; the bill and feetblackish brown. The young resemble the female. * Vaillant, S. Oraiiga. f Nectariiiia Splciidicla.—Sliav,-. THE HUMMING-BIRDS. *. The Huniming-bircls have been fairly characterised as fairv-like, and may be trulydesignated the jewels of ornithology. They are tlie Least of the winged vuuiants of the sky. How sweetly has Mary Howitt sung:— The liummiiig-bird ! tlie Inimniiiig-bird . So faiiV-hke and bright;It lives among the sunny ilowers, A creature of dcHght! In the radiant ishmdsof the , Where fragrant spices grow,A thousand, thousand humming-birds Are gluncing to and fro. Like living tires tliey flit about. Scarce larger than a bee,Among the dusk jialnietto leaves, ,\iid through the fan-pahn trei. And in the wild and verdant woods. Whore stately morass tower,AVlure hangs from branching tree to tree The scarlet passion flower. • TrocliiliJic. THE 289 Wlu-iv, oil tlu mii^lity rivc-i- La Ilatc or Amazon,The cajnian, like a tbix-st tree, Lies basking in the sun. There builds her nest the huinuiiiig-birJ Within the ancient wood,Her nest of silky cotton down, And rears her tiny bro
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