Note 15 — IV. HUMMING-BIRDS: AS ILLUSTRATING THE LUXURIANCE OF TROPICAL NATURE.
Reading edition
In the preceding account of the probable course of events in peopling these islands with humming-birds, I follow Mr. Sclater’s paper on the Land Birds of Juan Fernandez,—Ibis, 1871, p. 183. In what follows, I give my own explanation of the probable causes of the change.