. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE LONG-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. :1s was perched 'i-ness fi'om my a taste of its y tlie lu'xt diiy liitc diiiia cup llio very Laso, 0 talk with us ighly tamed in itde thing for it lilierty. As and vanislied vo ontlnisiasis i cage and cup er watching in when they saw :onfusod for a is donhts very I, and while lie >buked for our :iy to ; h'uhy-throated after they had of their kind Avindow. As 1 only waiting nto the syi'iip, , and brought was quite a amilies to the ing. He had cr leav
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE LONG-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. :1s was perched 'i-ness fi'om my a taste of its y tlie lu'xt diiy liitc diiiia cup llio very Laso, 0 talk with us ighly tamed in itde thing for it lilierty. As and vanislied vo ontlnisiasis i cage and cup er watching in when they saw :onfusod for a is donhts very I, and while lie >buked for our :iy to ; h'uhy-throated after they had of their kind Avindow. As 1 only waiting nto the syi'iip, , and brought was quite a amilies to the ing. He had cr leaving liis dlile. At last olite from tlie of ascending ic purpose of Here I must fations iii tlio lands, and on lari'ed i'rom a , rely entirely hose personal 0 the author, te nature, the f trees or on 1 as to some >r stem itself. silky fil)res rtable bed, as e number of Ten days are 229 required for their hat(;hing, and tlie birds raise tw(j broods in a season. In one week the young are ready to Hy, but ar.^ fed by tlie parents for nearly another week. They receive tlieir iood directly from the bill of their parents, wlio disgorge it in the manner of canaries and pigeons. It is my belief that no sooner are the young able to provide for themselves than they associate with other broods and perform their migrations apart from the old birds, as I have observed twenty or thirty young Humming-birds resort to a group of trumiiet flowers, when not a single old male was to be seen Thoy do not receive the full brilliancy of their colours until the succeeding spring although the throat of the male bird is strongly imbued with the ruby tints befbre thev leave us in autumn. '" The readier will doubtless remember that llv. Webber mentions the fact that one of his captured Luby-t iroats "played 'possum" when taken, simulating death in a very perfect manlier. In Wilson s well-known work on the birds of America, there is an account of a somewhat similar perforniance on the part
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