Arizona field notes / 1881
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28 June 51 Camp Lowell 6294 yo Not. Mus. 607 Micrattine whitneyi 4.7X/12.19pm 6295 Ditto 4.6X/28.9pm 6296 Ditto 5.6X/14.9.9 Parent of the two preceding. Scut threw out of a hole in a Giant Cactus and with them was an egg apparently chipped for hatching after which the bird must have died. It is very dirty but I hardly dare wash it for fear of its coming to pieces. 6297 6/10 Ditto to W. E. Q. Scott for Primitiva Couscous 6298 Ditto 5.8X/14.1 A 6.7X/14.5 B While passing along the bank of an arroya on the hills four or five of these Owls flow out of a brush below me Two of which I shot. On ex- aminining the bird I found that they were in the habit of roosting there