The Rufous Hummer 
Taken 
in Oregon 
Photo by 
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Bohlman 
RUFOUS HUMMER 
AT NEST 
Idaho and western Alberta; occurs broadly during migrations at all levels, east to 
Wyoming, Colorado, and western Texas; and during the summer dispersal occupies 
the mountains of California, Arizona, and New Mexico, and even southwestern Colo¬ 
rado. Winters in southern Mexico. 
Distribution in California.—Common spring migrant, chiefly west of the 
deserts and the Sierras. Late migrants bound for the high north (?) linger into May 
(Watsonville, May 20, 1914), or even June (San Jacinto Mts., June 2, 1913). The 
return migrations set in in late June and are more narrowly confined to the higher 
mountain ranges. 
Authorities.—Gambel (Calliphlox rufa), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, 
i., 1847, p. 32 (Calif.); Lucas, Auk, vol. x., 1893, p. 311 (food); Grinnell, Condor, 
vol. iii., 1901, p. 127 (status in Calif.); Thayer and Bangs, Auk, vol. xxiv., 1907, p. 
312 (hybrid with Atthis calliope ); Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zook, vol. v., 1908, p. 71 
(San Bernardino Mts., late in summer). 
RUFUS! What mighty Norsemen have borne that name! None 
more worthily than the iron-blooded midget of tropic mould who, among 
six hundred kinsmen, holds the record of “farthest North.” Often have 
I pitied him as on a March day in the Puget Sound country, with the rain 
pelting and the mercury at 40°, I have come upon him sheltering in the 
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