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Updated: May 19, 2025
And, indeed, although I myself feel that the Baltimore oriole, the scarlet tanager, the ruby-throated hummingbird, and many of the wood warblers carry off the palm for brilliancy of plumage, there are persons who declare that the jay is the most handsomely colored bird in our temperate regions.
I'm real glad you came along to explain it, sir. Somehow the reasons lots of folk give for things aren't reasonable at all." "Now, children," said the Doctor, "write the Hummingbird table before the twilight comes on." The Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Length less than four inches.
The most common, as well as the most beautiful, species of these minute birds, is the ruby-throated humming-bird a name given to it on account of the delicate metallic feathers which glow with ruby lustre on its throat, gleaming in the sunshine like gems of living fire. From the tip of the bill to that of the tail it measures about three and a half inches.
Its headquarters may be said to be among the glowing flowers and luxurious fruits of the torrid zone and the tropics. But one species, the ruby-throated, is widely diffused, and is a summer visitor all over North America, even within the arctic circle, where, for a brief space of time, it revels in the ardent heat of the short-lived summer of the north.
Robins stiffen their nests by making in them a substantial cup of mud, which, when dry, adds greatly to the solidity of the structure. On the island of Cape Hatteras there are many sheep, and many Prairie Warblers of the region make their nests entirely of wool. The most dainty structure built, in this country, by the bill and feet of birds, is the nest made by the Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
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