Arizona field notes / 1881
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27 April 81 Tucson Ariz. 5979 242 Pyrrhodolia zinnata 9.1X12.1 0 5980 293 Ditto 5.7X11.7 6 Heard a variety of notes, some of which were loud and pleasant and some a lower chishting. Heard no extended song, the longest was not more than four notes. Brush in an ar- royon, 5981 247 Dicrurus costae 3.55X4.52 8 jun 5982 293 Microstira whitneyi 5.9X15.2 6 Last night I heard a bird that was undoubtedly the present one, and watched some time to get to see it and shoot it if possible but could not. I heard it several times in the night and got up at daybreak to try it again but although I heard it I failed to see it. I tried though I heard two. The commonest