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notes differ somewh:xt from those of felagica, though of the same char- 

 acter, and are less frequently uttered. 



Trochilus rufus. Only two specimens observed during the spring and 

 summer, a male taken May 17 and another seen May 22. 



Trochilus calliope. First taken Mrly 17. A few Hummers, apparently 

 of this species, had been seen for ten days before this date, but they 

 were not abundant until the i6th, after which the males were common 

 about the blossoms of wild currant and gooseberry bushes. During the 

 breeding season they are generally distributed, and are to be found in 

 deep pine woods as well as in more open places, the constant sharp shrill 

 notes of the males indicating their presence and abundance. When pair- 

 ing soon after their arrival, and with less frequency during the period of 

 incubation, the males have a habit of poising themselves for some seconds 

 at a height of thirty or forty feet above the ground, and then dashing 

 down nearly to the earth, rising as quickly to poise again, and repeating 

 the manoeuvre often ; at such times their notes are particularly loud, and 

 attract attention from a considerable distance. 



A nest brought to me about the middle of July, and which the young 

 had just left, was placed upon a dead flattened cone of Pinna contorta. 

 It was composed of thin strips of a gray bark, with a few spiders' webs on 

 the outside; the lining was similar, but with a few small tufts of a cottony 

 blossom from some tree; the nest was just the color of the cone, and was 

 admirably adapted to escape notice. Another nest containing two nearly 

 fledged young was found at about the same time, but was quite unlike the 

 one just described in construction and situation, being of the common 

 Hummingbird type and saddled upon a dead willow twig. One of the 

 young birds lived for about a week, becoming very tame and feeding 

 greedily upon syrup. 



Baird, Brewer and Ridgway in N. A. Birds (Vol. II, p. 445) assert that 

 the folded wings reach beyond the tail; that the under mandible of the 

 male is "yellow"; that the length of the male is 2.75. I examined eight 

 males and one female. In none of them did the folded wings extend 

 beyond the tail. The average length of the males was 3.20 inches, the 

 extremes were 3.10 and 3.30. The length of the single feinale was 3.35. 

 The males had the upper mandible dead black, the lower mandible light 

 llesh color darkening towards the tip which was black; the feet dark flesh 

 color, the irides brown. 



Tyrannus verticalis. Three or four specimens were observed in the 

 autumn of 1S86. One specimen only seen in the spring, on May 4. 



Contopus borealis. Breeds sparingly among the pines, and generally 

 distributed, but nowhere common. 



Contopus richardsoni. Very common summer visitor, arriving about 

 May 25. In July, when the young have left the nest, the males are espec- 

 ially noisy, and their loud tweer or deer note is heard till long after sun- 

 set. From published descriptions it would seem that this Pewee in the 

 Rocky Mountain region usually builds its nest in an upright fork, much 

 as Traill's Flycatcher does ; while near the Pacific Coast the nest is 



