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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE SICKLE-BILLED HUMMING-BIRD. humming-birds. At first they arc without any feathers, and are more likebluebottle flies than anything else. There is a huge spider in that part of the world as big or bigger thanthe hummin;-bird himself. 70 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS, He makes a great strong net in which the brilliant little creature is oftencaught. And what is almost worse, he comes with his hideous long legs
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THIi TurAZ-THROATED IIUMI\:iNG-IirRD. running up the tree, and gets into the nest. Then he kills both the parentsand the young ones. THE HUMMING-BIRD FAMILY. 71 The humming-bird family is a very large one, and contains all mannerof brilliant little creatures, with names such as the topaz, and the amethyst,and the ruby-throated humming-bird. And sometimes the tiny gem is adornedwith an elegant ruff on its neck, that it can set up and down at pleasure, andthen it is called a coquette. There are some humming-birds that live in the forest, and keep in theshadow of the trees. This is very different from the usual habit of the family,as they are creatures of the sun and cannot live without it. A little humming-bird was once put into a shady room, where the sundid not shine. It became cold and benumbed, and dropped down as if itwere dead. The people of the house had to carry it out of doors, and lay itin the full glare of the sun. Then it soon began to revive, and became aslively as ever. Bu

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