molly mary o'brien

There is also another small curious bird, concerning which there are disputations, whether it is a bird, or a large West India bee.

Adrien van der Donck, a Dutch colonist, couldn’t decide whether a hummingbird was a bird or a bee.  For some reason this strikes me as wonderfully innocent.  I imagine there was a lot of tense observation: “Wait!  I see it!  There! Yes, that’s definitely a bird!  Wait! It’s acting like a bee now!  Drat!”