holes in the heart of the soundest trees, where it makes its nest, and lays five or six eggs of a white colour. Its plumage is a fine green, but the feathers

on its head are crimson. It is nearly as large as a jay. We have already noticed the WRYNECK and KINGFISHER TRIBES. * The CREEPER TRIBE are

*Juvenile Naturalist.

numerous, but there is only one species in our country. It is said, that these birds destroy an immense number of insects. The most beautiful, as well as the smallest of birds, belonging to this order, are not to be found in Great Britain; do you recollect what they are?

it reflects all the colours of the bow of heaven.

We

saw many of them in the British Museum; and some of them were but little larger than a bee.

We did; they have their name from the humming of their wings, which is occasioned by the swiftness of their flight. There are nearly seventy species.

They are divided into crooked and straight bills. Their tongue is long and slender, and, by this wonderful instrument, they extract the honey of flowers, which is their food, with the greatest facility. The Trochilus Minimus is smaller than some bees. They often fight for the possession of a flower, though none of them settle in the cup of it. When they find no sweetness in a flower, they will pull it to pieces in anger. They are found in Brazil and Surinam.

An American missionary tells us, that he found the nest of a humming bird in a shed near his dwelling-house, and took it in, at a time when the young ones were about fifteen days old. He placed them in a cage at his chamber window for his amusement; the old ones came and fed them

every

hour in

the day. At length they grew so tame, that they stayed in the chamber, and took up their abode with their young. They would all frequently perch on their master's hand, chirping as if they had been at liberty abroad. One night he forgot to tie up their cage to the ceiling, to preserve them from the rats, and he found in the morning, to his great mortification, that they were all devoured.

It must be a pretty spectacle to see multitudes of these beautiful creatures, delighting themselves among the flowers, and in the warm sunshine.

It must; and it is the mark of a benevolent and well-informed mind, to rejoice in the happiness of the animal creation. I think, with our poet, that

"The heart is hard in nature, and unfit
For human fellowship, as being void

Of sympathy, and, therefore, dead alike

To love and friendship both, that is not pleas'd

With sight of animals enjoying life,

Nor feel their happiness augment his own."

WALK V.

EARLY RISING-STARLING-WATER OUZEL-THRUSH-FIELDFARE-BLACK

BIRD-MOCKING BIRD-GROSBEAK-CROSSBILL-CHAFFINCH-SPARROWS

-CANARY-FLYCATCHER-LARKS-NIGHTINGALES-SWALLOWS-PIGEONS -TURKEY-PEACOCKS-PHEASANTS-GROUS-BUSTARDS-OSTRICHES

HERONS-CRANES-GIGANTIC CRANE.

MR. PERCY. Why, Edward, you are stirring early this morning.

EDWARD. Yes, sir; I have been up nearly two hours.

Indeed; why it is but just six o'clock. What have you been doing so early?

I have been putting down some things you have told me in our walks, which I wish to recollect.

You very much please me by so doing. It was a just remark of a celebrated writer, that every well