Metallura Cupreicauda Copper-tailed hummingbird

by John Gould

$600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A beautiful image depicting a copper-tailed hummingbird, from John Gould's masterpiece, 'A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Humming-Birds.' There is no one appreciative of the beauties of nature who will not recall... with delight the time when a live humming-bird first met his gaze. The suddenness of the apparition, even when expected, and its brief duration, are alone enough to fix the fluttering vision on the mind's eye.... The beautiful nests of humming-birds...

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