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Range. — Breeds from southern Idaho, Montana, and southern Wyoming to 

 the Valley of Mexico and from extreme eastern California east to western 

 Nebraska and western Texas. Winters in Mexico. [A closely allied race 

 occurs in the highlands of Guatemala.] 



Selasphorus rufus (Gmelin). Rufous Hummingbird. [433.] 



Trochilus rufus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 497. Based on the 

 Ruffed Honey-sucker Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 290. (in sinu Americae 

 Natka = Vancouver Island, British Columbia.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition and Canadian zones of western North 

 America, from the coast of Alaska (lat. 61°), southern Yukon, east-central 

 British Columbia, and southern Alberta south to Oregon and southwestern 

 Montana. Winters in southern Mexico and occurs in migration east to 

 Wyoming, eastern Colorado, and western Texas. Accidental in South 

 Carolina. 



Selasphorus alleni Henshaw. Allen's Hummingbird. [434.] 



Selasphorus alleni Henshaw, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, II, No. 3, July, 

 1877, 53. (Coast district of California = Nicasio, California.) 



Range. — Breeds in the coastal district of California in the Transition and 

 Upper Austral zones, from Humboldt County (and probably in extreme south- 

 western Oregon) south to Ventura County, and on the rianta Barbara Islands. 

 Winters on the Santa Barbara Islands and probably in northwestern Mexico. 

 Has been recorded casually in migration in eastern and southern California, 

 Arizona, and Lower California. Accidental in Montana. 



Genus ATTHIS Reichenbach. 



Atthis Reichenbach, Journ. fiir Orn., I, 1853, Extra-Heft [1854] (Aufz. der 

 Colib.), 12. Type, by subs, desig., Ornisniya htloisa De Lattre and 

 Lesson (Gray, 1855). 



Atthis heloisa heloisa (De Lattke and Lesson). Heloise's Hummingbird. 



[435.] 



Ornysmia Heloisa De Lattre and Lesson, Rev. Zool., II, No. 1, 

 Jan., 1839, 15. (Jalapa et Quatepu [ = Coatepec, Vera Cruz, Mexico].) 



Range. — Central and southern Mexico from Tamaulipas, Guanajuato, and 

 San Luis Potosi to Guerrero and Tepic. Casual in southern Arizona (Ramsey 

 Canon, Huachuca Mountains, July 2, 1896, two specimens).^ [Additional 

 races occur in Mexico.] 



1 Ridgway, Auk, 1898, p. 325. A. morcomi Ridgway is regarded as identical 

 with A. h. heloisa. 



