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433. RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, Selasphorus rufus (Gmel.) 



This hummingbird was a common visitor to our camp, and 

 was noted regularly near the lakes. A female was taken while 

 sitting on a naked branch near our tent, at McDonald Lake. 



Very common in the vicinity of the Station. On the day of 

 our arrival, a male rufous hummingbird was taken in the woods 

 across the road from the Station, and others were noted. In 

 the swampy woods between Swan and Flathead Rivers, this 

 hummingbird was frequently observed darting at Traill's and 

 other flycatchers, and pursuing them angrily for short dis- 

 tances, as though the latter were intruding upon its domains. 

 Later in the season, August 11, a family was noted visiting the 

 snowberry, a species of honeysuckle, and also feeding on the 

 giant hyssop growing rankly beside the fences near the Station 

 grounds. 



436. CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD, Stellula calliope Gould. 



The calliope hummingbird appeared to be common along the 

 cliff east of McDonald Lake. It was noted particularly in the 

 vicinity of the waterfalls that dashed from the crevices of the 

 cliff, where it would alight within a few feet of the observer, 

 sitting on some dead twig to preen its plumage or rest after 

 a journey along the rocky wall. 



A family of calliope hummingbird was observed on the east- 

 ern side of the ridge east of the Helena Club grounds. Both 

 elders and young were darting about from bush to bush, 

 and apparently had one or two chosen stations for perching, 

 generally bare twigs projecting from the periphery of a, maple 

 clump. The male parent bird was shot, and I had turned from 

 picking him up, when another of the family was seen perched 

 upon the same twig. No other specimens of this humming- 

 bird were noted near the Station. 



444. KINGBIRD, Tyrannus tyrannus (Linn.) 



Abundant in the willows of Flathead Lake shore at the north- 

 ern end, and also near Daphnia Pond. Nests were observed in 

 the early season. 



The kingbird ^,vas abundant along the streams of the reserva- 

 tion, and also along the foot of Flathead Lake. Many pairs 

 were yet feeding young birds in the nest. 



It was not observed at the smaller mountain lakes. 



