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Salvin, who, owing to his lameness, was accommodated with a chair, "the amusing thing about a party is to watch the people coming and going, coming and going." "Last time we met," said Mr. Salvin, "was at the Farquhars. Poor lady! She has much to put up with." "Doesn't she look charming?" exclaimed Miss Eliot, as Clara Durrant passed them. "And which of them ...?" asked Mr.
Salvin paid particular attention to the sexes of the humming-birds in Central America, and is convinced that with most of the species the males are in excess; thus one year he procured 204 specimens belonging to ten species, and these consisted of 166 males and of only 38 females. 'Ibis, vol. ii. p. 260, as quoted in Gould's 'Trochilidae, 1861, p. 52.
But there is much difficulty in understanding how this could have been effected at the same time with the two sexes of the same species. Mr. Salvin states, as we have seen in the eighth chapter, that with certain humming-birds the males greatly exceed the females in number, whilst with other species inhabiting the same country the females greatly exceed the males.
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