Well, that's the Hummer's nest!" "Oh! oh!" cried Dodo, forgetting to whisper, "I see a mite of a tail and a sharp needle beak sticking over the edge!" This was too much for Mrs.Hummer, who flew off with a whirr like an angry little spinning-wheel--if such a proper Puritan thing is ever angry; and there in the nest were two tiny eggs, like white beans.
"Come back by the fence and watch," said Joe.

"She doesn't like to leave the nest much when it is toward night." "It's a pity her mate is dead.

How lonely she must be!" said Dodo, who had a tender little heart.
"I do not think her mate is dead," said the Doctor; "he is merely staying away, after a custom of his family.

The bird whose nest we see there is called the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, because he has a patch of glittering ruby-red feathers under his chin, at the top of his buttoned-up vest that hardly shows any while shirt-front.

He wears a beautiful golden-green dress-coat, with its dark purplish tails deeply forked.