The Anna Hummer 
Taken in the Ojai Photo by Donald R. Dickey 
ANNA HUMMER AND NEST, ON DEAD BRANCH OF EUCALYPTUS TREE 
SHREWDEST of immortalities, a name! One Anna, sometime 
Duchess of Rivoli, is held aloft to immortal remembrance in California 
more surely than as if her statue in imperishable bronze were adorning 
a space in Golden Gate Park. Lesson, the Frenchman, monographer of 
936 
Authorities.—Lesson (Ornismya anna). Hist. Nat. Ois-Mouch, 1829, pp. xxxi., 
xlvi., 205, pi. 74 (orig. desc.; Calif.); Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, vol. ii., 1895, 
p. 206; W. P. Taylor, Auk, vol. xxvi., 1909, p. 291 (hybrid with Selasphorus alleni ); 
McAtee, i\uk, vol. xxx., 1913, p. 155 (feeding habits); Hunt , Condor, vol. xxii., 1920, 
p. 109, fig. (nuptial flight). 
