SS CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Rare; very few seen. 



Ridgway. In the rich valley of the Lower Truckee 

 the only species of hummingbird found in August at 

 which time great numbers were seen. Same locality in 

 May and June of the following season not one of this 

 species was found, its place being taken, apparently, 

 by T. alexandri. We next saw the rufous-backed hum- 

 mer in the West Humboldt Mountains. Eastward seen 

 only in Secret Valley the most eastward point to which 

 it is known to extend. 



97. Trochilus alleni (Hensh.) ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD. 



San Diego. Arrived about the same time as T. ruff*, 

 apparently rare, probably not always distinguished from 

 it in the field; male and female identified by specimens 

 shot by Mr. Carl H. Danielson and myself. L. B. 



Santa Cruz. Joseph Skirm. Quite rare summer resi- 

 dent. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. Rare April 15, 1885. 



Oakland and vicinity. W. E. : Bryant. Tolerably 

 common summer resident. 



Haywards. W. 0. Emerson. Common summer resi- 

 dent. Arrived February 15, 1885, 



Nicasio. C. A. Allen. March 13, 1884, first. 



Olema. A. M. Ingersoll. April 4, 1884, nest, and 

 young about a week old. I have also found it breeding 

 at Santa Cruz. 



L. B. Not yet detected in the central -part of Cali- 

 fornia; see Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, July, 1877, October, 

 1877, for description of this bird; also January, 1878. 



Mr. Charles W. Gunn, (0. & 0. February, 1885,) who 

 collected at Colton, San Bernardino County, says of it: 

 " Not common; five specimens taken, found in com- 

 pany with T. rufus." 



