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Mayhew
1947
Mar. 1
Allen's Hummingbird 1.
Strawberry Canyon, U.C. campus, Alameda Co., Calif.
At 1:35 P.M. one individual was seen
feeding from the flowers of an unknown
bush. He lit on another bush with
his back toward us so that the green
back, reddish-brown tail + reddish-brown chute
patches were easily seen.
Mar. 8
Strawberry Canyon, U.C. campus,
at 9:25 A.M. one or was seen preforming his
nuptial dive. He rose straight up in the air
for about 50', then went into a fairly steep
dive. At the bottom of the dive a whirring
sound was heard, quite different from the noise
made by the Anna's Hummer.
at 10:10 A.M. one individual was seen hanging
on the bottom of a limb like a chickadee.