. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. 864 THE HUMMINGBIRD. ing and humming over the flowers in the dusky twilight, than like a bird, appears this delicate fairy-like beauty. How the bright green of the body gleams and glistens in. THE HUMMINGBIRD. the sunlight; while the ruby-colored throat, changing with the angle of light as the bird moves, is like a bit of black velvet above the white under parts, or it glows and shimmers like a flame. Each imperceptible stroke of those tiny wings conforms to the mechanical laws o
. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. 864 THE HUMMINGBIRD. ing and humming over the flowers in the dusky twilight, than like a bird, appears this delicate fairy-like beauty. How the bright green of the body gleams and glistens in. THE HUMMINGBIRD. the sunlight; while the ruby-colored throat, changing with the angle of light as the bird moves, is like a bit of black velvet above the white under parts, or it glows and shimmers like a flame. Each imperceptible stroke of those tiny wings conforms to the mechanical laws of flight, in all their subtle complications, with an ease and gracefulness that seems spiritual. Who can fail to note that fine adjustment of the organs of flight to aerial elasticity and gravitation, by which that astonishing bit of nervous energy can rise and fall almost on the perpendicular, dart from side to side, as if by magic, or, assuming the horizontal position, pass out of sight like a shooting star ? Is it not impossible to con- ceive of all this being done by that rational calculation. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Langille, J. H. (James Hibbert), 1841-1923. Boston : S. E. Cassino
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