Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Illustration showing a Humming-bird (Mellivora avis Carolinensis) feeding from a Trumpet flower (Bignonia, fraxini folijs). The bill of the Humming-bird is straight and black; the eyes are black; the upper part of the body and head of a shining green; the throat adorned with feathers placed like the scales of fish, of crimson metallic; the belly dusky white. It receives its food from flowers, its tongue being a tube through which it sucks the honey from them. The bird breeds in Carolina and leaves at the approach of winter. Printed Reproduction The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands ... Mark Catesby Published: 1731-1743