BIRDS OP MONTANA 



1910c, p. 204), hut I am iuulincd to think the hircl was convctly iih^ntiticd m the 

 first place. 



16S. Selasphorus rufus (Gmeliii) 



RuFons Hum >iin(;bird 

 A summer resident of the mountains of western ilontana, most ahunchuit in 

 the northwestern pai-t. and jierhaps only a migrant in the soutiiwest. There are 

 no definite eastern records, tliough a hummingbird thought to be of this species 

 was seen in the Big Horn Mountains (.McCliesney, 1879, p. 2390). The eastern- 

 most definite records of this si)ecies are all in the mountains of Teton and Lewis 

 and Clark counties (Saunders, 1914a, p. ]:U). The Gallatin (bounty reconl is 

 in (piestion (Saunders, 1909b, p. 197; IDHJe, p. 204; 1911a, p. 3<Sj. 



Pig. 19. Fk.m.\i.k Rri'ors Hi'.M.MiNcniHin fkkdim 

 1915. Photo by A. D. DuBois. 



Nkai; Bei.tiin ; .Jri.v, 



The migrations take place in late .May or -June, and in September or th:' 

 last of August. Dates of migration : German Gulch. Silver Bow County. .May 30. 

 1910; Bernice, Jefferson County, -lutie 0, 1911 ; Anaconda. Septembt^i' 11, 11109; 

 Gold Creek, Powell County, August 24, 191(1; s<'en at Helton, ScpteiuliiM' 14. 

 1915, by Mr. Sutherland (DuBois, MS). 



The nest has been found at Flathead Lake by Silloway. .\ nest containint/ 

 newly hatched young was found at Belton, July 17, 1914. and a liird was ob- 

 served feeding young, July 2, 191.') (DuBois, MS). A nest found in (iallatin 



