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The seven adult specimens secured (Nos. 1-7) all from Ad- 
miralty Island, show extreme brightness of coloration. The ven- 
tral yellow is distinct, and in particular, the red of the head and 
breast is a very bright and dark crimson. This latter is in part 
due to wear undoubtedly ; but even so, the color is deeper than 
in the corresponding plumage of sapsuckers from further south. 
The dorsal white stripe is indicated by a restricted series of mere 
yellowish white flecks. I have at hand no skins of Sphyrapicus 
from Vancouver Island; it would be desirable to make compari- 
sons with material from there. 
Selasphorus rufus (Gmelin). Rufous Hummingbird. 
The first hummer was seen, according to Dixon, at Windfall 
Harbor, Admiralty Island, May 1. It was a brilliant male and 
came and buzzed about some bright red tomato cans that had 
been thrown out. Stephens records that at the same place, May 
2, a male came around camp investigating everything that was 
red, such as a red-bordered towel, the red places on the end of 
a fruit box, an empty salmon ean, and particularly a red bandana 
handkerchief hanging on a bush; this the bird went to three 
times. 
At Mole Harbor, June 3, Dixon saw three female rufous 
hummingbirds around camp. ‘“‘They kept picking at the frayed 
ends of the tent ropes. We put out bits of cotton which the 
birds soon found and earried off for nest building.’’ <A nest 
with two considerably incubated eggs was found by Stephens, 
June 4, at this place. The nest was seven feet above the ground 
in a fir tree on the bank of a creek and three miles inland from 
the bay. The nest is firmly saddled on a horizontal branch, 
smoothly finished and rather thick-walled, composed of fine bits 
of moss and what looks like cottonwood down closely felted to- 
gether. The outside is profusely covered with scale-like bits of 
light-colored bark. The nest is 26 mm. high by 50 mm. across; 
and the cavity is 16 mm. deep by 24 across. One of the eves 
was broken. The remaining egg measures 13 by 8.8 mm. 7 
At Hasselborg River, June 12, Dixon saw a bright male hum- 
mer. At Red Bluff Bay, June 11 to 20, and at Bear Bay, August 
24, both on Baranof Island, Stephens noted the species; also at 
