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Note "Poo-ave" Common in
summer in rocky localities, especially foot hills. This may be fighting in
the ground and picking up beetles and
flying up again at twilight.
Difficult to get by reason of their
nocturnal habits.
9 April 81
9 Miles East of Tombstone A.T.
5870
183 Callipheila squamata 10.3x14.3 ♂
5871
184 Ptilo chlorinus 7.3x9.6 ♂
Light from. Bill dark above
flush brown below. Legs half
brownish, feet darker. Not-
common this far south.
Frequent low brush. This was
in a little patch of Willows
in an arroyo. Bird in act
5872
185 Embidionus obscurus 5.9x6.2 ♂
5873
186 Ptilo fracs 8.1x10.9 ♀
Bill dark from above, lighter
below. Legs light brown, Feet
darker. Killed its mate at
the same shot but it is mounting,