So rapid the vibrating hum—
I almost dream were but a dream.
Then suddenly I cry aloud,
When in a rapid-shooting ray,
My fairy disappears, a-flash,
Into the sun-haunts far away.
Willis Edwin Hurd.
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD.
(Selasphorus rufus.)
Life-size.
FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES.