Note 35 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 5)

There is a much lesser species of humming-bird, by Linnæus called Trochilus minimus, being the least bird known; Sir Hans Sloane’s living one, weighed only twenty grains, and Mr. Edwards’s dry one forty-five. It is drawn in Edwards’s birds, t. 150, in its natural size, together with its egg. F. ↑