 | 1810 - 312 pages
...All the large feathers on the wings and tail are black, but all the rest of the body, and under the wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast...has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, &nd, as it were, gilded at the top, which in the su« sparkle and shines like a little star in the... | |
 | 1830 - 604 pages
...hrilliancy of their colours. The feathers on their hody and under the wings are of a greenish hrown, with a fine red cast or gloss which no silk or velvet can imitate. The humming hird inhahits the warmer parts of America and the West Indies, and it is inconceivahle,... | |
 | 1819 - 186 pages
...size of a hazel-nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but its body, and under its %vings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss,...imitate. It has a small crest on its head, green at the Jbottom, and as it were gilded at the top; and Which sparkles in the sun like a little star in the... | |
 | J. Macloc - 1820 - 348 pages
...that of a humblebee. The smallest humming-bird is about the size of a hazel nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black ; but those on its body,...its wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. The bill is black and slender, and the head is adorned... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 pages
...is about the size of a hazel nut. 6. The feathers on its wings and tail are black : but those on the body, and under its wings, are of a greenish brown,...cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. 7- It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, and as it were gilded at the top ; and which... | |
 | 1813 - 998 pages
...together the insect and the feathered tribes. The feathers on its wings and tail are of a violet brown, but those on its body, and' under its wings, are of a greenish colour, with a fine red cast or gloss which no silk or velvet can imitate. Its bill is long, black,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 534 pages
...with its little bill. The smallest humming-bird is about the size of a hazel nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but those on its body and under its wings, are of a greenish-brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 170 pages
...their little bills. 3. The smallest humming-bird is about the size of a hazel nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but those on its body, and under its "flings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate,... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pages
...tubular shaped flowers. The smallest Hummingbird is about the size of a hazel nut. - The feathers on its wings and tail are black ; but those on its body and...its wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. The bill is black and slender, and the bead is adorned... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pages
...a bee, and weighs no more than twenty grains. The feathers on its wings and tail are violet brown, but those on its body and under its wings are of a...cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. The bill is black, straight, slender, and of the length of three lines and a half. The RUBY-CRESTED... | |
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The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but those on its body, and under its wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velyet can imitate. 
