The Calliope Hummingbird at Portland, Oregon
The Calliope Hummingbird at Portland, Oregon.-On April 26,1944, the Misses Mary Lou Moore and Mary Jo Moore of the Oregon Audubon Society found a dead hummingbird near their home in southeast Portland. Being familiar with the Rufous Hummingbird, the only hummer found commonly in the Portland area, they showed their “find” to several friends without obtaining a satisfactory identification. The bird was finally laid away in a refrigerator to await my return to the city. Nearly a month later the bird was given to me, still in a fair state of preservation. It proved to be a typical adult male Calliope Hummingbird (StelWa calliope) the first known record of the occurrence of this species in the Portland area and, in fact, the first reported occurrence west of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon-STANLEY G. JEWETY, Portland, Oregon, May 9, 1945.
