BROAD-TAILED HUMMING BIRDS 



{Selasjihorus platycercus) 



STRAWBERRY VALLEY, at an 

 elevation of eight thousand feet, is situ- 

 ated about one hundred miles east of 

 Salt Lake City. An artificial lake five or six 

 miles long, covering the greater part of the 

 valley, serves as a reservoir for irrigation be- 

 low in Utah Valley. The region has re- 

 cently been made a bird reservation, and the 

 lake is now the home of many ducks and shore 

 birds, while back in the timber on the hills 

 bordering the valley, song birds of all kinds 

 thrive in abundance. 



In this region so interesting to the bird stu- 

 dent, humming birds are conspicuous, both by 

 their numbers and their loud metallic buzzing, 

 which pervades all the small canons and imme- 



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