. Birds and nature . i 85 KURVTHKOATED HUM M IX (Trorliiliis C(>liil)ris). About Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BV THE RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD. ( Troch ilus colubris.) Voyager on golden air, Type of all thats fleet and fair, Incarnate gem, Live diadem, Bird-beam of the summer day,— Whither on your sunny way? —John Vance Cheney, To Humming-bird/ Regarding the Ruby-throated Hum-mingbird, Mr. Wilson has said: Na-ture, in every department of her work,seems to delight in variety, and the pres-ent subject of our history is almost assingular for its minuteness, beauty, wantof song, and manne
. Birds and nature . i 85 KURVTHKOATED HUM M IX (Trorliiliis C(>liil)ris). About Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BV THE RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD. ( Troch ilus colubris.) Voyager on golden air, Type of all thats fleet and fair, Incarnate gem, Live diadem, Bird-beam of the summer day,— Whither on your sunny way? —John Vance Cheney, To Humming-bird/ Regarding the Ruby-throated Hum-mingbird, Mr. Wilson has said: Na-ture, in every department of her work,seems to delight in variety, and the pres-ent subject of our history is almost assingular for its minuteness, beauty, wantof song, and manner of feeding, as themockingbird is for unrivalled excellenceof notes, and plainness of of the most interesting facts regard-ing these, the tiniest and most exquisiteof our birds, is that they are the onlyones of a large family (for there areabout five hundred known species ofHummingbirds) which pass through theUnited States east of the MississippiRiver, and finally on to the Fur Coun-tries and Labrado
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