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107. Calypte anna (Lesson) 



Anna Hummingbird 



Calypte anna (1) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1870, p. 78. (2) Grinnell, Auk, xv, 

 1898, p. 235. (3) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, pp. 42, 44. (//) Richard- 

 son, Condor, x, 1908, p. 66. (5) Linton, Condor, x 1908 p. 127. (G) Osburn, Condor, 

 XI, 1909, p. 137. (7) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid Am., v, 1911, p. 621. (8) Willett, 

 Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 60. (.9) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 87. 



Not rare on the islands, breeding on some of them at least. May 17, 1910, 

 I saw a single male of this species on the Coronados. On San Clemente, for sev- 

 eral days during the latter part of IMarch, 1915, one collected bits of cotton from 

 tlie vicinity of our skinning table. At Catalina J. Grinnell {2) shot an adult 

 female and saw another the last of December, 1897, which indicates that they may 

 spend the entire winter in that locality, and C. H. Richardson (i) saw a few- 

 there in April. C. B. Linton (5) found them to be fairly common on Santa Cruz 

 during November and December, 1907, and A. van Rossem and I saw several 

 there the latter part of April, 1911, the former taking two males on the 29th and 

 30th. respectively. 



108. Selasphorus alleni Henshaw 



Allen Hummingbird 



Selasphorus rufus (/) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1870, p. 78. (2) Cooper, Land 

 Birds Calif., i, 1870, p. 356. 



Trochilus rufus (3) Blake, Auk, iv, 1887, p. 329. (-J) Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 339. 



Selasphorus alleni. (J) Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 15. (H) Grinnell, Auk, 

 XV, 1898, p. 234. (7) Grinnell, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, p. 18. (8) Mailliard, 

 Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, pp. 42, 44. (.9) Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXII, 1900, p. 230. {10) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 3, 1902, p. 41. {11) Mearns, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., Lvi, 1907, p. 142. {12) Richardson, Condor, x, 1908, p. 66. {13) Lin- 

 ton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 84. {IJ,) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 127. {l.j) Wright, Con- 

 dor, XI, 1909, p. 100. {16) van Rossem Condor, xi, 1909, p. 208. {11) Willett, Con- 

 dor, XII, 1910, p. 171. {18) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid. Am., v, 1911, p. 610. {19) 

 Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 61. {20) Snyder, Condor, xvi, 1914, p. 182. {21) 

 Shepardson, Condor, xvii, 1915, p. 130. {22) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, 

 p. 88. 



Common resident. On the Coronados A. van Rossem {16) found these birds 

 to be very common in April, 1909, and H. Wright {15) noted what he believed to 

 be this form the last part of June, 1908. On San Clemente J. Grinnell (.5) met 

 with them commonly along the ravines, the latter part of ::\Iarch, 1897, and one 

 nest was found. This, as well as a number of other nests found by C. B. Linton 

 {13), was composed chiefly of sheeps wool, with the usual covering of lichens and 

 plant fiber. 



The species is especially abundant on Catalina, where I have observed that 

 the birds are partial to the clumps of wild tobacco, though not by any means con- 

 fined to its vicinity. As an instance of its numbers here, G. K. Snyder {20) dur- 

 ing fifty-five minutes on March 20, 1914, examining, with the aid of a cumber- 

 some ladder, about thirty trees for possible nests, discovered and inspected elev- 



