6 4 Birds of Oregon and Washington 



Length, 3.5 inches. 

 Summer resident. 



THE ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD. 



Length, 3.25 inches. 



No doubt the Allen's Hummingbird is some- 

 times seen by people who mistake it for the 

 Rufous, so much are they alike especially the 

 females. But close observation will reveal the 

 former bird here and there, throughout our 

 States. In one place at least, Gray's Harbor, 

 Washington, the Allen's Hummingbird was re- 

 ported in 1892 as being equally common with 

 the Rufous. There are probably other such 

 localities. Although these two members of the 

 Hummingbird family resemble one another so 

 closely, they may be distinguished by noticing 

 the birds very carefully and marking the differ- 

 ences indicated in the descriptions. 



PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Head and back, bright 

 metallic green (in the Rufous Hummingbird, the metallic 

 green only occasionally extends down the back); tail- 

 feathers of the Allen's, narrow, while the same feathers 

 of the Rufous are broad, and a notch in the second 

 feather from the middle of the Rufous Hummingbird's 

 tail, is wanting in the Allen's. 



