CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 335 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Twenty-five ; one taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains; fifteen at 
Revelstoke, B.C. ; two at Spence’s Bridge, B.C.; one at Burrard 
Inlet, B.C.; and four at Victoria, Vancouver Island, all by Mr. 
Spreadborough. 
One set of two eggs taken at Banff, June 13th, 1893, by Mr. W. 
Raine. Nest attached to the end of a limb of a spruce tree about 
fifteen feet from the ground. 
434. Alien’s Humming-bird. 
Selasphorus allent HENSH. 1877. 
Eastern Coast Range and Rocky Mountain districts. (/annin.) 
One specimen shot about six miles up Eagl> Pass, west from 
Revelstoke, B.C., May 25th, 1890; next day another specimen 
was taken at Revelstoke; not uncommon at Sicamous, B.C., in 
July, 1889. (Spreadborouch.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two; taken in Eagle Pass and at Revelstoke, B.C., by Mr. 
Spreadborough. 
CLIX. STELLULA Govtp. 1861. 
436. Calliope Humming-bird. 
Stellula calliope GOvuLD 1861. 
Summit of Rocky Mountains; alt. 7,000 feet. (Zord.) East 
and west of Coast Range. (/annin.) Common at the Crow’s 
Nest Pass, Alta., in August, 1897; breeding in considerable 
numbers at Banff, Rocky Mountains, in June and July, 1891 ; 
while camped at Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, Columbia River, 
B.C., in the early part of June, 1890, I took seven specimens and 
they were so abundant that many others could have been taken. 
They were not observed examining flowers but were seen perching 
on small trees and chasing small flies and returning again to their 
perch just as small flycatchers do. Farther down the river at 
Robson this species was quite rare. In May, 1889, it was not 
uncommon at Spence’s Bridge, at an altitude of 3,500 feet, and a 
number were taken ; saw a number in a marsh in Depot Creek, 
east side of Chilliwack Lake, B.C., July, l901. Observed at Trai 
and Cascade, B.C., near the International Boundary, in the sum- 
