The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 22
his winged brethren. For days hehovered about, and when his silver cup was heldup, he would approach; but he never came backto his cage. And by and by he disappeared withhis companions. The humming-birds, of which there are morethan two hundred and fifty different kinds, be-long wholly to the… … species penetrate the United States in Arizonaand New Mexico. A few of them spread throughCalifornia and the Rocky Mountains, while onesolitary species bends its course eastward, and inrapid flight wings its way to the Middle andAtlantic States, to Canada, and even to the farforests of Hudson Bay.…
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