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as little warning as he does when simply in search of food. While going up the 
tree he gives, from time to time, a characteristic call, much like that of the hairy 
woodpecker. 
Although I never saw the nest of the bird, one was found by Dr. Fisher, in 
a maple, about twenty feet from the ground, which contained naked young on 
May 14. A nest containing young was found in the Chiricahua Mountains by 
Mr. W. W. Price, in 1893. As far as f know, these birds were found only in the 
live-oaks of the western and southern slopes of these mountains. 
Rivoli Hummingbird {Eugenes ftilgetis). Early one bright, sunny morning 
in the first part of September, 1892, while waiting for breakfast, I chanced to take 
a stroll through our garden, which at that time was one of the most beautiful in 
the post of Fort Huachuca. The diminutive rufous hummers were out in great 
force, it seemed to me, more for the purpose of fighting than feeding. While 
watching the antics of these birds, my attention was attracted by a monster hum- 
mingbird that flitted over the house, without any apparent effort, and began to 
feed among some scarlet geraniums in a large flower-bed. All I knew when I 
made a rush for the house, was that right there in our garden, was something very 
rare in the bird line. When I got back with my gun the bird had left, but was 
soon found on the other side of the house, where, after a few unsuccessful at- 
tempts, I finally shot it, and I do not know that even the trogon, of which I 
have spoken, pleased me as much as did this fine hummer, with his black irides- 
cent breast, showing green in some lights, the bright emerald gorget, and forehead 
of rich violet blue. 
Its motions were unlike any other hummer I have ever seen as its wings did 
not hum in the manner that has given this family its name, but cut the air with 
strong, firm, wing beats. Its flight was erratic, like that of the hummingbird 
moth, and at times like that of a bat. It would even soar, or sail for a few feet. It 
was not very shy, but when it made up its mind to go it would flit away on an 
erratic course witnout the slightest warning. 
I saw this hummer next at Rucker’s Canyon, in the lower end of the Chiri- 
cahua Mts. in the last part of May ’94, where, as we sat skinning some specimens, 
a fine male darted by, hovered a moment over some flowers, and then disappeared 
up the canyon. 
When Dr. Fisher and myself reached Fly Park, in the Chiricahuas the first 
week of June, 1894, we found this, as well as the blue-throated hummer, common. 
They had evidently just come up from Mexico on their spring migration, and 
had not as yet spread through the deep canyons where they breed. Here we found 
them at their best, the males continually fighting, though not so fiercely as the 
smaller species, or displaying their brilliant colors to enemies, and admirers, from 
some sunny twig. As far as my observations went, I remember only males, 
and no females, but Dr. Fisher obtained one or more females. 
White-eared Hummingbird. The history of the white-eared hummer 
{Basilinna leucotis) within our border is very short, and it is to be hoped that 
further notes on this species (which was recorded for the first time in the United 
States in 1894) can be obtained soon. 
On the morning of June 9, 1894, Dr. Fisher and myself started from our camp 
at Fly Park for a hunt. We had not gone fifty yards from the tent, when the 
Doctor saw, perched on a twig, a hummer which had a decidedly white patch be- 
hind its eye. He called my attention to the peculiarity, and then shot the speci- 
men. In the hand the white patch was very noticeable, and he thought it was an 
immature specimen of the Circe hummer, but it has since been identified as the 
white-eared hummingbird, a straggler from Mexico. Another specimen has since 
been secured in the Huachucas, I believe, by Mr. Lusk. 
