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Ruby-Throated
Hummingbird – Plate Reference #47
Hummingbirds, which are found only in the New World, fascinated the Americas
and Europeans of Audubon’s day. To gratify this widespread curiosity,
Audubon placed ten diminutive ruby-throated hummingbirds together in this
painting, probably done in Louisiana about 1825. They are, in most other
circumstances, too pugnacious to associate this closely. The males are
distinguished by their brilliant red throats; the young birds resemble the
females in appearance. Audubon used gift paint to capture the golden color
on the upper portions of the birds. The plant is a trumpet-flower, or
trumpet-creeper.
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