Pitella 1957 Selasphorus rufus 23-25 march Queens Road, Berkeley, Calif. canthus, Primros, and willow occupying an area y about x ft. or sq. feet. Occasionally the R was active on trees to the S, to the other side of the house, about 50 feet from the favored area. He was also seen to fly up, westward, into a grove a blossoming enceliatus, where there was a gathering of Selasphorus humilis. From belch excursions, the rufus R usually returned over within a minute or two at the most. Because of the characteristic flight sound, he R could be located at almost anytime and was present almost continually during periods on the three days when I was working in the garden nearly. On the 24th, a male anna appeared and sang from the pyraeantha shrub where I near when the rufus usually perched. A rufus R could be heard in the shuttler below x to the north of the former pitcher. The area was not in possession an anna, as was true in '54, '55, & '56. But since January or