. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . HUMMING-BIRD SHIELDING THE EGGS FR03I THE SUN. THE XEWLY HATCHED HUMMERS ARE BLACKISH, WITH A FEWYELLOW HAIRS ON THE BACK, AND HAVE SHORT STUBBY BEAKS / Broad-Tailed Humming Birds one other than that of venting a burst of ex-uberant spirits. Exuberance is one of themost applicable adjectives in describing thesewinged bullets, as in their every action appearsan overflowing of energy and vitality. Eachmovement is so lightning-like in quickness, andthe bird has such remarkable control of itself,that the longer one watches, the more onem
. Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits . HUMMING-BIRD SHIELDING THE EGGS FR03I THE SUN. THE XEWLY HATCHED HUMMERS ARE BLACKISH, WITH A FEWYELLOW HAIRS ON THE BACK, AND HAVE SHORT STUBBY BEAKS / Broad-Tailed Humming Birds one other than that of venting a burst of ex-uberant spirits. Exuberance is one of themost applicable adjectives in describing thesewinged bullets, as in their every action appearsan overflowing of energy and vitality. Eachmovement is so lightning-like in quickness, andthe bird has such remarkable control of itself,that the longer one watches, the more onemarvels. What other bird can fly forward orbackward with equal ease, or rise in a verticalline as if shot upward from a gun? It startsand stops so quickly that it swings forward orbackward as if it were a pendulum. One won-ders whether any bird can fly so fast, and cer-tainly none can attain momentum so are very sensitive, and whenwatched they grow agitated and fretful, leav-ing the nest repeatedly. Their low peepingexpresses much annoyance as they dart nerv-ously here and there. They wi
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