قراءة كتاب Birds and Nature, Vol 10 No. 2 [September 1901]

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Birds and Nature, Vol 10 No. 2 [September 1901]

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ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
BIRDS AND NATURE.
Vol. X.	SEPTEMBER, 1901.	No. 2

CONTENTS.

TO A HUMMINGBIRD.

Voyager on golden air,

Type of all that’s fleet and fair,

Incarnate gem,

Live diadem

Bird-beam of the summer day,—

Whither on your sunny way?

Loveliest of all lovely things,

Roses open to your wings;

Each gentle breast

Would give you rest;

Stay, forget lost Paradise,

Star-bird fallen from happy skies.

Vanished! Earth is not his home;

Onward, onward must he roam

Swift passion-thought,

In rapture wrought,

Issue of the soul’s desire,

Plumed with beauty and with fire.

—John Vance Cheney.

THE ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD.
(Calypte anna.)

Buffon, writing of the Hummingbird, and his words do not refer to any single species, but to them as a group, says that “the emerald, the ruby and the topaz glitter in its garb, which is never soiled with the dust of earth, for, leading an aerial life, it rarely touches the turf, even for an instant. Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it shares their freshness and their splendor, lives on their nectar, and only inhabits those climates in which they are unceasingly renewed.”

Of all the birds that might receive the appellation, “The Bird of America,” to none could it be applied more truthfully than to the Hummingbird. For of all the families of birds that are distinctively peculiar to the Americas the Trochilidæ, or the Hummingbird family, contains the larger number of species. There are over five hundred species inhabiting North and South America and the adjacent islands, from Patagonia on the South to Alaska on the North. The species is more numerous in the tropics and but seventeen are known to frequent the United States. Of these only one, the ruby-throated hummingbird, exhibits its beauty east of the Mississippi River, and but seven species have their breeding range chiefly or entirely within the United States.

“They abound most in mountainous countries, where the configuration of the surface and productions of the soil are most

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