Sept., 1921 THE NORTHWARD RANGE OF THE ALLEN HUMMINGBIRD’ tes 
records for allent north of California, both of which T | Ae represent casual 
occurrences. 
Henshaw (Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 1, 1878, p, As) mentions in particular 
a green-backed specimen from Welfare on referaple to his S. allen. This was 
no. 6059 U. 8. National Museum which, accordivg to Baird (Rept. Pac. R. R. 
Surv., Ix, 1858, p. 184), was collected April 26/1856, at Ft. Steilacoom, Wasii- 
ington. Ridgway (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. V, 1911, p. 611) makes particu- 
lar mention of this individual in the synonomy of Selasphorus allem. Dr. C. 
W. Richmond, Associate Curator of Birds, U. 8. National Museum, at my re- 
quest made a search for this skin in the National collection, but could not find 
it. Upon turning to the Register of Specimens he discovered that the line de- 
voted to the specimen bears the entry ‘‘Destroyed, Aug., 1885.’’ However, 
the fact that Mr. Henshaw, the original describer of the Allen Hummingbird, 
and Mr. Ridgway, who has given much attention to hummingbirds, both men- - 
tion this particular specimen makes the record unusually dependable. 
It remains to mention the only specimen of allent known to be extant for 
the territory north of California. This is an adult male taken by Mr. S. F. 
Rathbun at Seattle, Washington, May 27, 1894, and at present no. 121 of his 
collection. Mr. Rathbun kindly forwarded the specimen to me for examina- 
tion. The outer rectrix on each side is only 1.7 mm. at the widest part, the 
next to innermost pair of rectrices have no indication of notching and the 
back is chiefly green. 
It is worth while to set forth the results obtained by a critical eotimeanom 
of the literature and by correspondence with the authors concerned in the pre- 
vious records of Selasphorus allen for the Northwest. 
Brooks in 1903 recorded alleni as breeding near 158-mile House, Caribou 
District. British Columbia (Auk, xx, 1903, p. 282); but later, after examining 
specimens of undoubted alleni at Berkeley, recalled his record (Auk, xxix, 
1912, p. 253), concluding that he had never seen the species in the Province. 
Fannin’s ‘‘Check List of British Columbia Birds’’ (1891) I have not been able 
to examine, but Ridgway (loc. cit.) summarizes Fannin’s statement of the 
range of alleni as ‘‘e. Cascade and Rocky Mt. districts.’’ Kermode, in a list 
published in 1909 (Provincial Museum [Report], 1909, p. 52) uses substantially 
the same language as Fannin in referring to alleni, having evidently followed 
Fannin. Presumably some of the specimens of rufus in the Provincial Muse- 
um were earlier referred to alleni. A recent letter from Mr. Kermode states 
that the Museum contains numerous specimens of rufus, including some de- 
termined by Mr. Oberholser, but no allem. The statements of Fannin and 
Brooks were evidently the basis for the statements in the A. O. U. Check-list 
and in Ridgway (1911) that allent was a bird of British Columbia. Mr. P. A. 
Taverner has informed me by letter that Spreadborough’s records of S. allent 
for British Columbia given by Macoun (Cat. Canadian Birds, 1909, p. 365) are 
erroneous, being based upon specimens of rufus. 
The numerous records of S. allend from Washington prove all but two to 
have been based upon faulty data. Edson (Auk, xxv, 1908, p. 434) recorded 
the species as a ‘‘frequent resident’’ at Bellingham Bay. Several specimens in 
his collection, earlier labelled alleni, upon re-examination by Mr. Edson and 
later by myself, prove to be rufus. He states in a letter that he has seen 
rufus as early as February, though they do not usually appear until well along 
in March, and sometimes in April. ‘‘Resident’’ was undoubtedly used earlier 
