Five years of banding wintering hummingbirds in the southeastern United States has resulted in the second documentation of an Allen’s Hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) in Alabama. The first known occurrence was a bird banded in Mobile on 3 December 1991 by the authors and was reported in Alabama Birdlife, Vol. 39, No. l. Now a second Allen’s has been captured, banded, and studied in detail in Prattville in south central Alabama.

Discovery of this second bird came on 9 January 1992 in response to a telephone call from Dorothy Baker of Prattville notifying us of a hummingbird at the residence of Mrs. Francis Finch, also of Prattville.