 ... food. Its gorgeous throat in beauty and brilliancy baffles all competition. Now it glows with a fiery hue, and again it is changed to the deepest velvety black. The upper parts of its delicate body are of resplendent changing green ; and it throws...  Humming Birds, Described and Illustrated - Page 33by Henry Gardiner Adams - 1856 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1832 - 462 pages
...body are of resplendent changing green, and it throws itself through the air with "a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves from one flower...with great precaution the advances of the season, and retreats with equal care at the approach of autumn."* The nest of this species is formed with a delicacy... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 pages
...delicate body are of resplendent changing green; and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves from one flower...with great precaution the advances of the season, and retreats with equal care at the approach of autumn. The ruby-throated Humming Bird has a particular... | |
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 pages
...delicate body are of resplendent changing green; and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves from one flower...upwards, downwards, to the right, and to the left. Int his manner it searches the extreme northern portions of our country, followingwith great precaution... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 pages
...its body are of resplendent changing green, and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves from one flower...with great precaution the advances of the season, and retreats with equal care at the approach of autumn." . . . . " They pass through the air in long undulations,"... | |
 | 1839 - 428 pages
...body are of resplendent changing green ; and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves From one flower to another like a gleam of light. They follow the course of the sun, advancing or retiring with him ; and flying on the wings of the... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...body are of resplendent changing green ; and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves from one flower...to the left. In this manner it searches the extreme portions of our country, following with great precaution the advances of the season, and retreats 6... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 376 pages
...delicate body are of resplendent changing green, and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves from one flower...with great precaution the advances of the season, and retreats with equal care at the approach of autumn."* A Virginian gentleman kept two of these creatures... | |
 | 1862 - 908 pages
...delicate body are of resplendent changing green, and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. It moves from one flower...upwards, downwards, to the right, and to the left. I wish it were in my power at this moment to impart the pleasure I have felt whilst watching the movements... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 372 pages
...gleam of light, upward, downward, to the right, and to the left. In this manner it searches the extreme portions of our country, following with great precaution the advances of the season, and retreats with equal care at the approach of autumn. pair of young, little larger than bumble-bees,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 374 pages
...changing green ; and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable. S. It moves from one flower to another like a gleam of light, upward, downward, to the right, and to the left. In this manner it searches the extreme portions of... | |
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