. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 458 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. They had already paired, and were constantly to be seen hoverin*; over the llowers. Tlieir notes consisted of a rapid chirpinj^; sound. As Dr. Kennerly's ])arty approached the coast of California, where the valleys al»ounded with flowers of every hue, these l»irds continued tlittiuj^ before them in <.,'reat num- bers. J )r. ('ones states that this species was not taken at Fort Wliipple, t
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 458 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. They had already paired, and were constantly to be seen hoverin*; over the llowers. Tlieir notes consisted of a rapid chirpinj^; sound. As Dr. Kennerly's ])arty approached the coast of California, where the valleys al»ounded with flowers of every hue, these l»irds continued tlittiuj^ before them in <.,'reat num- bers. J )r. ('ones states that this species was not taken at Fort Wliipple, though abundantly distributed tliroughout the Territ )ry, particularly in its southern and soutliwestern i)ortions, and found about fifty miles south of It is presumed to wiiUer within the Territory, and also within the valley of the Colorado. Dr. Cooper did iKJt observe any at Fort Mohave until March T), and they were not numerous afterwards. At San Diego, in 1862, when the spring was unusually backward, he saw none before April 22, and he has since met with them as far north as San Francisco, where, however, they are rare. The notes uttered by the male he compares to the highest and sharp- est note that can be drawn from a violin. Nothing more is known as to their distinctive specific Selasphorus rufus. Genus SELASPHORUS, Swainson. Sdasphorus, , F. B. A. 11, 1831, 324. (Type, Trodiilus ruftcs.) As already stated, the characters of Sehmpliorns, as distinguished from Cabjpte (to which it is most nearly related, through the C. Jlorcsi), consist in the lack of metallic feathers on the crown, and in the attenuation of the outer primary, and the pointed and acuminate cuneate (instead of forked) tail. As distinguished from TrochUva, the quills diminish graduallv, instead of showini; an ab- rupt transition between the fourth and fifth, so characteristic of the two species of Trochilus, as restricted. The very attenuated tip of the outer primary
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