Allen's Hummingbird, (Selasphorus sasin) Kenneth Hahn Park, Los Angeles, CA

Allen's Hummingbird was collected by and named after Charles Allen (1841-1930), a collector and taxidermist who lived in California. He collected and sent a specimen to an ornithologist back east, who named the bird after him.

 

Later it was determined the someone else had described the bird many years earlier, but the name Allen's Hummingbird remained attached to the bird.

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