Painted

Unknown

Published

1931

Volume

7

Plate

427

Bluethroat Hummingbird

Cyanolaemus clemenciae

Occasionally this species breaks the Hummingbird rule against walking and slips along a limb for inches to probe a nearby blossom.

Like the Rivoli, the BLUETHROAT is slow and dignified in demeanor and an observer, at first sight, would be quite likely to mistake one for another genus.

They are said to combine a series of notes into semblance of a song.

BREEDING

RANGE

Southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and western Texas.

Spanish Dagger

Yucca schottii

A 15-foot tree distributed on mountains of southern Arizona.

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