She swallows tiny insects, and when they have remained a little while in her crop she opens her beak, into which the young bird puts its own and sucks the softened food, as a baby does milk from its bottle." "I was wondering this very morning," said Joe, "how the old bird was going to feed her young ones when those two eggs hatched, without any mate to help her.

I'm real glad you came along to explain it, sir.
Somehow the reasons lots of folk give for things aren't reasonable at all." "Now, children," said the Doctor, "write the Hummingbird table before the twilight comes on." The Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
Length less than four inches.
Male: shining golden-green above, with dark purplish wings and tail, the latter forked; glittering ruby-red throat; other under parts grayish, with some white on the breast and greenish on the sides.
Female: lacks the ruby throat, and has the tail not forked, but some of its feathers white-tipped.
A Summer Citizen of the eastern United States from Florida to Canada.
Though songless, a jewel of a bird, belonging to the guild of Tree Trappers.

Nest a tiny round cup of moss and plant-down stuccoed with lichens; eggs only two, white.
THE CHIMNEY SWIFT "Now, wouldn't you like to see the big chimney ?" asked Joe.

"The birds go in and out a good deal this time o' day.

It's across the road there, where the old house used to be.