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A Humming Bird's Nest

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
August
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Reeently a humming bird's nest was found by some persons who had sufficient natural curiosity to overeóme their compassion, and who eaptured the nest, two young hummers and the old one, took them home and had them stuffed. They are to be sent to a museum of natural curiosities in London. The nest is built on a little twig, and scarcelythe size of half an Enghsh walnut. Both nest and twig are covered with little patches of lichen until it is almost impossible to teil one f rom the other, and the nest looks like a kind of natural excrescence on the twig. The nest is pliable, like a tiny cup of velvet, and the inside is lined with a white substance, as rich and soft as white silk. The littie birds are about the size of bumble bees, very pretty, and they sit on a little perch just outside the nest, with open bilis, ,„hiii tiio nid Viirri hovevs over them to 11 I1IH HíiKi V feed

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Old News
Michigan Argus