most parts of that State it is, according to Mr. Belding, rare and chiefly a migrant, 

 though breeding in the Sierra Nevada above 4,000 feet. Mr. Townsend found it breed- 

 ing abundantly on the McCloud River, in the northern part of the State, as did 

 Dr. Merrill at Fort Klamath, Oregon. Dr. Merriam obtained a female on the 3rd of 

 July at Fort Ellis, Montana, where the species was doubtless breeding, and Mr. John 

 Fannin records it as a common summer resident at Buzzard Inlet, British Columbia. 

 It has not yet been taken in Colorado ; but it may be expected to occur in the western 

 portion of that State, since the present writer found it to be not uncommon in the 

 Wasatch Mountains of Utah, where in fact it was almost as numerous as w&s Selas- 

 pborus platycercus. Mr. Henshaw found it rather numerous in summer along the Upper 

 Pecos River, in New Mexico." 



Some points in the breeding habits of the Calliope Hummingbird are thus 

 described by Dr. J. C. Merrill, the locality being Fort Klamath, Oregon : 



"First taken May 17. A few Hummers, apparently of this species, had been seen 

 for ten days before this date, but they were not abundant until the 16th, 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 pairing 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 atten- 

 tion 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 Pinus contorta. It was composed of thin 



strips of 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 sirup." 



NAMES: Calliope Hummingbird, Mexican Satellite, Star-throated Hummingbird, Satellite Hummingbird. 



SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Trocbilus (Calotborax) calliope Gould (1847), STELLULA CALLIOPE Gould 

 (1861). 



DESCRIPTION: "Adult male with the narrow and distinctly outlined feathers of the gorget, pure white 

 basally, metallic reddish-purple terminally; middle tail-feathers somewhat spatulate, purplish back, 

 edged with rufous toward base and broadly tipped with dull brownish-gray, etc. Under-parts, white, 

 the sides and flanks, metallic-green, mixed or washed with pale rusty. Adult female, metallic bronze- 

 green above ; under-parts, white ; the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts, pale rusty or cinnamon-buff, 

 the throat more or less spotted with brownish." (R. Ridgway.) 



Lucifer Hummingbird, Calotborax lucifer Gray. This beautiful species has been 

 added to our avifauna by Mr. H. W. Henshaw, who found a specimen near Camp Bowie, 

 Arizona. It is a numerous bird in Mexico. A nest in the B. F. Goss Collection, said to be 



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