Sometime during the morning of 6 July 1976 William Haggard of Santa Paula, Ventura County, California noted a strange hummingbird at one of his feeders, located in an oak-chaparral canyon. He identified the bird as a Violet-crowned Hummingbird (Amazilia verticalis). On 17 July we visited the feeders and observed the hummingbird several times at very close range.