A MUSIC-LOVING HUMMING-BIRD.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR, We have on a verandah a wind-bell—one of those small collections of different-sized and coloured pieces of glass hung on threads which jingle together when the wind blows, producing a somewhat musical sound. Such articles are common in the East. When the air is still, on to this contrivance comes a small humming-bird which jumps about pecking at the various threads from which the pieces of glass are suspended and setting the whole thing in motion, thus producing the sound described. The bird frequently does this, and as far as can be seen its only object seems to be to produce a musical sound. The fact seems so out of the common that you may consider it worthy of insertion in your paper.—
[The writer of this letter will be known to many reader, as our first Life Member. It was a letter from him which decided us to establish Life Membership. Though we have only had the scheme in action for some eight months we already have 270 Life Members.—En. Spectator.]
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