Paper, 'Of the humming bird' by Robert Southwell Southwell recounts Mr Fovey's observations from the island of Nevis in theWest Indies, including a description of hummingbirds (Trochilidae) and how they 'suck their food from the blossoms of trees, and feed their young with such honey or juices as they suck from hence'. Subject: Zoology / Ornithology Read to the Royal Society on 20 October 1697 October 1697