Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — Humming Birds in This Country. [ARTICLE]

Humming Birds in This Country.

While the eastern part of the United States can lay claim to only one representative of the humming bird family, the western part is more richly favored.* In all, seventeen species have found their way Into the limits of the United States. However, ten of these really belong to the Mexican group, appearing only accidentally on this ttfde of our southern border. This leaves only seven which really belong to this country, and we cannot even claim a monopoly of them, for most of them are migrants, breeding within our limits, but going further south In winter. Indeed, only one of them, called the Anna humming bird, ventures to spend the winter in the warm valleys of California. All the rest move down Into Mexico to find a winter home. One of these Western species Is an extensive traveler. It is called the rufous-backed hummer. In summer It has been found in Alaska as far north as the Olst degree of north latitude. As this little migrant spends the winter in Mexico, it must accomplish a journey of considerably more than 2,000 miles from its most northern to its most southern report.—New York Evening Post. Some people pay too much attention to the talk of the Insane. •tors teeth hardly ever look natural.