History And Description of the Royal Museum of Natural History, Published By Order of the Administration of That Establishment
History And Description of the Royal Museum of Natural History, Published By Order of the Administration of That Establishment
J P F Joseph Philipe Franois Deleuze
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These little birds resemble the piqs in their habits, and in th^ feathers of their' tails, which are stiff and worn at the end. The humming birds fill up the third, fourth, and fifth shelves. They excite attention by their diminutive size, the beauty of their colours, and the degance of their forms ; several of them are not an inch long; their nests are placed by their side. The topaz, the garnet, the red topaz, the ruby, the sapphire, and the emerald hunmiing birds, have been so named from the... colours of these precious stones which they display on their breasts and necks. They are all natives of America, and fly rapidly round the floweri, the nectar of which they Suck by in- troducing their tongue into the corolla, w^hich is bifid like that of the. pies and capable o£ the same elongation ; they also feed on small insects. The crested-neck of Cayenne. and Jhe white crested-neck of Brazil are not so lively, but their size is scarcely larger than that of a hornet. The sugar-eaters {cinnjrris, Cuv.), which ai'e the hum- ming birds of the ancient continent, fill the three following shelves.
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