User:NoelWeaver/sandbox

Heather's Comments

 * March 5- Terrific! You figure it ALL out.  And found great references too!  If you haven't yet, be sure to look over the guidelines for environmental science articles, like this one: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Butte_College/English_2_(Spring_2020)/articles/available
 * Keep proposing more citations and additions. :)

Noel's Work Log

 * February 25, 2020- Figured out how to use my sandbox and library references. Read some articles and decided to go with Allen's Hummingbird. Evaluated some of the article's resources and found some of my own. Worked on Name section of the article. (3 hours)
 * March 13, 2020- Looked at the talk page for Allen's Hummingbirds, read and replied to the "Talk" section. (A user told me that "no one without an account can see information on your university server, so try to use original public online sources." The user also provided a couple useful links and approved of my decision to improve the Name section of the article.)Added more references. Re-edited the "Name" section for clarification and revisited my previous references. Question: Should I remove the links to the sources since they cannot be accessed by others? (2 hours)

Name
The common name commemorates Charles Andrew Allen (1841–1930), American collector and taxidermist. Allen was born in Milton, Massachusetts but eventually moved to California where he found this species of hummingbird and sent it to some naturalists along with other specimen. Scientist, H.W. Henshaw believed that this was the first discovery of this species of hummingbird, and momentarily named it the Selasphoris alleni. However, this species had already been identified and named Selasphorus sasin. Despite him not being the one to originally discover the species, the name "Allen's Hummingbirds" stuck. (added citation and removed unverified info) (added new background on Charles A. Allen and how it got the name) (re-edited for clarification)

A hybrid between this species and Anna's hummingbird has been described as Floresi's hummingbird, "Selasphorus" floresii.