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Selasphorus rufus (Gmel.). Eiifoiis Hummingbird. 



Alexander Mackenzie, in Jiuie, 1793, while on the extreme south- 

 ern headwaters of Peace Eiver, just before crossing the divide to the 

 source of the Fraser, saw a hummingbird which was almost certainly 

 of this species. He speaks of it as the only hummingbird seen by 

 him in the Xorthwest.^ 



J. Alden Loring reported seeing several hummingbirds at his 

 camp 15 miles south of Henry House, July 3 to 21. 1896. The 

 species was not identified, but since S. rufus is a common breeder at 

 Banff, Alberta,^ and other points in that general region, these obser- 

 vations, as well as Drummond's note already mentioned, probably 

 refer to the present species. 



Tyrannus tyrannus (Limi.). Kingbird. 



The kingbird is of regular occurrence north to the region of Great 

 Slave Lake. In 1901 we first saw it on an island near the outlet of 

 Athabaska Lake June 1. noting a single bird. On the next day we 

 saw several and collected two at the same place, and on June 3 secured 

 ^mother, all of which proved to be females. ^Ye noted no others until 

 July 5, when we saw a single bird at Fort Resolution, and I observed 

 another at Fort Rae July 19. ^Vliile we were ascending the Atha- 

 Irnska, we saw several below Big Mouth Brook, 65 miles below Atha- 

 baska Landing, August 26, and others between there and La Biche 

 Eiver on August 27. 



In 1903 we first noted this bird at Fort Chipewyan June 1, and 

 Ave saw several near the outlet of the lake on June 5. We next ob- 

 served it near the motith of Slave River Jtme 19. My brother and 

 Gary saw one at Hay River Jime 30, and on their return trip ob- 

 served two at Crooked Rapid, Athabaska River, August 15, and two 

 at Grand Rapid Augtist 20. I observed the species at Fort Resolu- 

 tion on July 10 and 15. 



In the spring of 1904 I saw a kingbird at Fort Simpson on Jime 1. 

 I did not again note the species until I reached Fort McMurray on 

 my return trip. Here I observed one or two on AugTist 11, and I 

 found the bird rather common at Grand Rapid August 22 and 23. 



Ross considered this species rare in the Mackenzie River region 

 north to Fort Simpson, where it had been collected.^ Eggs taken at 

 Lesser Slave Lake in 1868 were received by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution from Strachan Jones. Loring reported seeing one individual 

 at Banff'. Alberta, August 30, 1891. Macoun states that during the 



« A'oyages to Frozen and Pacific Oceans, p. 216, 1801. 

 ^ Macoun, Cat. Canadian Birds, Part II, p. 334, 1903. 

 ^Xat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 278, 1862, 



