Broth 1989 journal 242. Bootlegger Saddle, elev. 9000 ft. Chiricahua Mts. Cochise Co., Arizona May 25 I decided to walk north on the trail to cont'd Rustler Park. After about 200 yds, I heard croaking and cackling calls that sounded like parrots. I then climbed the hill about 100 ft. in elevation and was right under the tree that had even thick-billed parrots. I went back to the car to get the camera and binoculars. I then watched and photographed the birds, which were foraging on dry cones on a ponderosa pine. The birds mostly foraged directly on piscent cones, but sometimes broke off the cone to forage. Cones dropped regularly from the tree. They looked halfway between what a crossbill does and a squirrel does to a cone, with some patches devoid of scales, others spread and broken. After some short fly-arounds by individuals, two alighted on the top of a dead pine, one with no small twiggy branches. There they clung to the trunk around a small hole in the tree. One of them appeared to be excavating. The others vocalized and flew around, but generally the majority of birds