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Title: The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bingley, William, 1774-1823
Subjects: Birds Zoology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Edgewood Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Linnaeus. It is stated to breed in clefts and holes of rooksand in old buildings. The eggs we are told are of a fine bright red. THE RED CREEPER. This diminutive inhabitant of New Spain, smaller than even thelast-mentioned species, I mention merely for the purpose of describing its nest; which, differing, in this respect, from those of most ofthe other species of Creepers, is pensile. The nest is formed not unlike a chemjsts retort placed with themouth downward, through which the bird ascends to its offspring inthe bulb at the top. Its length is fourteen or sixteen inches; and itis suspended to the most extreme and tender branches of the trees,by means of a kind of woven work, of similar materials to the exte-rior of the nest. In the broadest part of the bulb, it measures aboutsix inches in diameter. Within it is lined with soft and downymaterials, to guard the bodies of the tender young-ones from injuryand it is altogether so very light, as to be driven about by the moagentle breeze.

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THE EED-THEOATED HUMMING-BIRD. J37 OF THE HUMMING-BIRDS IN GENERAL. The characters of this tribe are, a slender, weak oill, in isome species curved, in othersstraight; the nostrilsare minute: thetongue is very long,and formed of twoconjoined cylindricaltubes: the legs areweak: the toes placedthree forward and onebackward: and the tallconsisting of tmfeathers.The XTumming-birds are the most diminutive of all the feathered*ribes. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and ofsome of the West-India islands; rikI bear a great resemblance toeach other in manners. Their principal food, is the nectar at thebottom of tubular-shaped flowers: this tliey extract, while on wing,by means of their long and slender hill. ^Iheir name is derived fromthe humming noise they make with their wings. They are grega-rious; and construct an elegant hemispherical nest, in which they laytwo small white eggs, that are hatched by the sitting of the male andfemale alternately, The young ones are often att

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A celebration of multicultural history in Australia – interactive touch screen as part of the Sandridge Bridge.

The Sandridge Bridge is a historic former railway bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which has been redeveloped in 2006 as a new pedestrian and cycle path and public space connecting a new Queensbridge Square at Southbank to Flinders Walk on the north bank. It was built in 1888.

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