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to indicate summer occurrence, not continuance through the winter. Rathbun 
(Auk, xtx, 1902, p. 1385) says of alleni ‘‘rather rare summer resident and un- 
doubtedly breeds.’’ The one bird mentioned above substantiates this record 
only so far as a single occurrence in summer is concerned. The Ft. Steilacoom 
record has already been discussed. 
Bendire (Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, 1, 1895, p. 217) on the statement of 
R. H. Lawrence reports that a pair with young, taken near Tacoma, Washing- 
ton, were exhibited by the Edwards brothers, local taxidermists, in October, 
1891. Bowles has twice recorded alleni as occurring at Tacoma (Condor, ft, 
1900, pp. 91-92; Auk, xxi, 1906, p. 144) but in a recent letter states that he 
does not know of an authentic record for the state. The mounted group he 
considers were rufus. Lawrence (Auk, 1x, 1892, p. 44) gave allent as common 
at Grays Harbor, but as he distinctly states that he ‘‘had a good view of one”’ 
on one oceasion and does not mention the taking of specimens, the occurrence 
is not proved. Dawson (Birds of Washington, 1909, p. 400) makes mention 
of specimens in the Edson and Cantwell collections; the former have already 
been shown to be rufus. Mr. Cantwell writes that he has been on the lookout 
for allen for years without obtaining it, and that he believes the specimen 
which he had earlier, and which is mentioned by Dawson, was gotten by ex- 
change from California. 
No authentic record for the Allen Hummingbird in Oregon has come to 
attention. Woodcock (Oregon Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 68, 1902, p. 52) on the 
authority of two of his correspondents lists allent from Dayton and Elkton but 
no mention is made of specimens. Dr. John Bovard tells me that there are no 
Oregon taken specimens of alleni in the collection of the University of Oregon. 
At my request Mr. W. D. Strong recently examined the collection of the Ore- 
gon Fish and Game Commission in Portland without finding Oregon specimens, 
and Mr. Stanley G. Jewett states that he has never found the species in Oregon. 
In the light of information set forth above it would seem proper to list 
Selasphorus allent as of but casual occurrence north of the northern boundary 
of California. Oregon has not been explored so fully as California and it may 
be that the species invades it locally. The appearance of this Hummingbird 
in Washington is but casual and its occurrence in British Columbia yet re: 
mains to be demonstrated. 
Berkeley, California, June 18, 1921. 
