. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. in;MMIN(i lUltDS. 4n l")r. Conpcr tliinks thai lio iiict witli s|)(>cit'.s in Ati;,', ISn:'., (ui tlic suiuinit i)( lliL' CaisciiiUi ., luit mistook tiio siicciiiicus lor llio young of &lti) I'tiJ'idi. Kaily in Juno, IS,")',), Mr. Jolm Foilncr found tlioso birds brocdinj,' noar I'itt liiver, I'lilifornia, and olituinitd llioir This .species was olitainoil by Mr. l!iil,n\vny only on the Kast Humboldt Mountains, in Eas
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. in;MMIN(i lUltDS. 4n l")r. Conpcr tliinks thai lio iiict witli s|)(>cit'.s in Ati;,', ISn:'., (ui tlic suiuinit i)( lliL' CaisciiiUi ., luit mistook tiio siicciiiicus lor llio young of &lti) I'tiJ'idi. Kaily in Juno, IS,")',), Mr. Jolm Foilncr found tlioso birds brocdinj,' noar I'itt liiver, I'lilifornia, and olituinitd llioir This .species was olitainoil by Mr. l!iil,n\vny only on the Kast Humboldt Mountains, in Eastern Xevada. The two or three specimens sjiot were , obtained in Auj^nist and St'ptomber, and at the time mistaken for the youn;;' ol' Sriiisp/ionts p/iiti/airHs, which was abundant at tiiat locality. Dr. W. J. Holfman writes, in relation to this .species, that on tlie 2lltli of July, 1871, being in camj) at Hig I'incs, a place about twenty-seven miles north of Camp Independence, California, on a mountain stream, the banks of which are covered with an undergrowth of cottonwood and small l)ushes, he frequently saw nml heard Humming-Hirds Hying around him. He at length discovered a nest, which was perched on a limb directly over the swift current, where it was sometimes subjected to the sjiray. The lind) was but half an inch in thickness, and the was attached to it by nu-ans of thin fibres of vegetable nuvterial and hairs. It contained two eggs. The parents were taken, and ]iroved to be tins sjiecies. There were many birds of the same kind at this point, constantly on the tops of the small pines in search of Genus TROCHILUS, Linx/Eus. Trochilus, LiXN«us, Systema Natuife, r/48 (). Gen. Char. Metallic govgot of throat m-ai-ly even ;ill round. Tail forked; the feathers lanceolate, acute, becoming gradually niu'iower Ironi the central to the extciior. Inner . primaries .ibruptly and smaller than the outer tour, with the ^^"^
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