. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Calliope Hummer Fiery Topaz, Ruby-and-Topaz, Al- lied Emerald, Sapphire-breasted Emerald, Green-crowned Brilliant, Equadorian Rainbow, Equatorian Sunbeam, Parzudaki's Sun-Angel, Gould's Heavenly Sylph, Fanny's Wood-Star, Compte de Paris's Star- frontlet, Mrs. Stewart's Star-throat, Isaacson's Puff-leg, Baroness de Le- fresnaye's Plumeleteer, Blossom- crown, Little Violet-ear, Pallid Her- mit, Bearded Mountaineer, Green Mango, Darker-Green Carib
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Calliope Hummer Fiery Topaz, Ruby-and-Topaz, Al- lied Emerald, Sapphire-breasted Emerald, Green-crowned Brilliant, Equadorian Rainbow, Equatorian Sunbeam, Parzudaki's Sun-Angel, Gould's Heavenly Sylph, Fanny's Wood-Star, Compte de Paris's Star- frontlet, Mrs. Stewart's Star-throat, Isaacson's Puff-leg, Baroness de Le- fresnaye's Plumeleteer, Blossom- crown, Little Violet-ear, Pallid Her- mit, Bearded Mountaineer, Green Mango, Darker-Green Carib, Spark- ling tail, Tyrian-tail, White-booted Rocket-tail, Black-billed Streamer- tail, Curve-winged Saber-wing, Jul- ia's Train-bearer, the Sappho Comet, the Circe, Rivoli, and Lucifer Hum- mers, the Frilled, Spangled, Festive, and Adorable Coquettes, the Charm- ing, Beautiful, and Lovely Hum- mingbirds, and, last but not least, the truly Marvelous Humming- bird (Loddigesia mirabilis). What wonder, then, that with so many children to provide for, Gould, the great monographer of the TrockilidcE, should have named this nearly silent, but always beautiful species, after the muse of eloquence, Calliope. Star-Hummer would, however, have been the more fitting name, for the genus Stellula is unique in this highly gifted family, in that the gorget of the male is distensible into separate rays of purple, like a halved star. This, the tiniest of our sextette of California Hummers, is also the highest-ranging, at least in the nesting season. It is essentially a moun- tain-loving species, and is, so far as we have been able to prove, the only breeding Hummer of the higher Sierran slopes. There is a 3000 foot record, by Stephens, of a nest in the San Bernardinos; but 4000 is the usual minimum, and 8000 a better average. In the Canadian zone, therefore, the bird knows no restrictions, save that it does not favor the densely timbered sections. In the Sierras it nests nearly up to timber line
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