Arizona field notes / 1881
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20 April 81 Tucson Ariz. 5931 244 Rethrina (lagiata) 17.9X3.72 F Mt. brown, Bill and claws black Curr. Legs and feet bright-yellow. Stomach contained scales of small fish (these are minnows in the Santa Cruz), hair, bones of some very small animal, wing covers of small beetles. She evidently had not eaten this morning. Laying would not have laid again for several days; probably the set is complete. She evidently had not incubated long. Shall try to find the nest. Saw her mate also but he was too shy for me. I saw them yesterday, in the same place. They flew from one large tree (magnolia) to another one or two hundred yards distant and repeated it when I tried to ap- proach. Flight swift and