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CENTURA Stkpiikns. 

 ■212. Vaux's Swift. 



C/uelura vauxii (Towns.). 



A summer resident on Vancouver Island and Mainland. I found it very 

 common near Sicamous, May 28th, 1895. 



Family TROCHILID^. Hummingbirds. 

 TROCHILUS LiNN^us. 

 213. Black-chinned Hummingbird. 



Trochilus alexandri (BouRC. & MuLS.). 



Confined to the Mainland. I have never seen it on Vancouver Island. 

 Mr. Brooks has taken it at Chilliwhack and Okanagan. 



SELASPHORUS Swainson. 

 2U. Red-backed Rufous Hummingbird. 



Selasphorus rufus (Gmel.). 



An abundant summer resident west of Cascade Mountains, including 

 Vancouver Island. Mr. Brooks has taken it at Okanagan. Common at 

 Metlakatla (Rev. J. H. Keen.) 



215. Green-backed Rufous Hummingbird. Allen's Humming- 



bird. 



Selasphorus alleni (Hensh.). 

 Eastern Cascade and Rocky Mountain districts. (Fannin.) 



STELLULA Gould. 



216. Calliope Hummingbird. 



Stellula calliope (Gould). 

 East and west of Cascade Mountains. (Fannin.) 



Order PASSERES. Perching Birds. 



Family TYRANNID^. Tyrant Flycatchers. 



TYRANNUS Cuvier. 



217. Kingbird. 



Tyrannus tyr annus (lilNN.). 



A common summer resident on the Mainland at Chilliwhack, Sardis, 

 Ducks and Vernon, and has been taken as far north as Port Simpson. Rare 

 on Vancouver Island. 



