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Excerpt from The American Naturalist, 1876, Vol. 10: An Illustrated Magazine of Natural History In the nest observed, one young died, but the other was fledged and left it on March 3oth, quite able to make short excursions for food in fif teen days. I had seen fledged young ones about the Eucalyptus trees several days earlier, so that they must hatch in many nests as early as March 1st. Three cold rains occurred during the development of the one I watched. During all the tituc of development both of eggs and young there have been white frosts at night and fresh, piercing cold winds dur ing the day. As with the Nootka Hummers the females perform the task of hatching and feeding the young entirely by themselves, the males dis appearing from the lowlands and gardens after the eggs are laid, and re tiring among the richer flowers of the mountain canons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.