HUMMINGBIRDS 



West. Its song is a bubbling warble, long 

 sustained and clear, louder than that of the 

 winter wren and closely resembling it. John 

 Muir recounts many interesting tales of the 

 water ouzel, which he studied and learned to 

 love in the mountains of California. He tells 

 of seeing them swimming under the thin ice 

 from one air hole to another in the high 

 Sierras, and Grinnell records the same thing 

 in other places. 



The nest of the dipper is a round ball of 

 green moss with its entrance hole on one side, 

 placed in a crevice in the rock over w^ater, 

 and often near or behind a waterfall where 

 the spray is always keeping it wet. Where it 

 is placed behind a waterfall the ouzel will 

 dash right through the spray to reach it. 



FAMILY TROCHILID.T:: HUMMING- 

 BIRDS 



Rufous hummingbird, Selasphorus 



rufous. 3.50 



Distribution: Western North America 



from Alaska to southern Mexico, east during 



migrations to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado 



and western Texas, wintering in Mexico. 



The hummingbirds comprise one of the 

 most wonderful as well as one of the largest 

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