2 The humming-bird
Of all animated beings, this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors.
The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to this jewel of nature.
She has placed it least inside the order of birds, maximum ???? in minimus.
Her masterpiece is this little humming-bird and upon it she has hid all the gifts which the other birds may only share.
Lightness, repitility, nimbleness, race, and rich in p??? all beong to this favoritem, The emmold, the ruby and the tobus lean upon which it addresses.
It never soars them with dust of the air and scarely touches the turf of the ???
Always in the air, flying from flowers to flowers, it has their freshness as well as their brightness.
It lives upon their nectars and dwells only in the climate where they primarily blooms.
