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LAND OF SUNSHINE. 
thrill of delight unequaled by any other victory. The me¬ 
chanical work is done of course by a professional, after we 
have finished the preliminary taming and coaxing. Some of 
the accompanying photographs were published in the Wide 
World Magazine, London. With the British love of claiming 
everything it sees, that magazine announced that the photos, 
were taken in the “ Island of Dominica,” thus leaving out of 
the question our own Southern California, because, forsooth, 
it is not under the English crown. We could afford the slight. 
A summer resident of our lowlands, and reaching to the 
summit of the mountains, is the Black-chinned humming bird. 
It is most abundant in the foothills, where it nests after the 
middle of May. These birds are more abundant after a wet 
C. M. Davis Eng. Co. Copyright 1897 by Daugherty & Grinnell 
“dinner, please.” 
winter, choosing to breed near streams. They retreat as the 
flowers grow dry, and may be found later at high altitudes. 
The Black-chinned hummer is colored a brilliant metallic of 
amethyst violet, changing to blue and green. In this species 
the female also wears a throat patch of spotted metallic, but is 
modest of coloring. 
We have also the Costa’s hummer, occurring as early as 
April, and nesting in barren washes far from water—differing 
in this from the former. The head of this bird is a purplish 
red with violet reflections. Lower parts grayish. Female 
plain, with some metallic spots on throat. 
The Rufous hummer loves our orange groves during its 
spring migrations, where it may be seen among the blossoms 
