 | Fashion - 740 pages
...cave again, and found the nest perfected, and containing two eggs, which were not hatched on the first of May, on which day I sent Sam to endeavour to secure...carefully brought down to me. I transferred it— having b roken one egg by accident — to a cage, and put in the bird." She was mopish, however, and quite... | |
 | 1851 - 642 pages
...1st of May, on which day I sent Sam to endeavor to secure both dam and nest. He found her eitting, and had no difficulty in capturing her, which, with...nest, as she did also some flowers which I inserted. The next morning she was dead." When looking at humming-birds — some not bigger than an humble bee,... | |
 | 1851 - 638 pages
...containing two eggs, which were not hatched on the 1st of May, on which day I sent Sam to endeavor to secure both dam and nest. He found her sitting,...difficulty in capturing her, which, with the nest and its content«, he carefully brought down to me. I transferred it — having broken one egg by accident... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...cave again, and found the nest perfected, and containing two eggs, which were not hatched on the first of May, on which day I sent Sam to endeavour to secure...carefully brought down to me. I transferred it — having b roken one egg by accident — to a cage, and put in the bird. She was mopish, however, and quite... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 pages
...again, and I left the place also. On the 8th of April, I visited the cave again, and found the neat perfected, and containing two eggs, which were not...nest, as she did also some flowers which I inserted. The next morning she was dead." The Eev. Lansdown Guilding once saw a pair of humming-birds (Trochilus... | |
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... round as she sat. My presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant. At length she left again, and I left the place also. On the 8th of April, I visited the cave again, and found the nest perfected, and containing... 