Arizona field notes / 1881

Stephens, Frank, 1849-1936; Brewster, William, 1851-1919

1881

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Birds Stephens Frank 1849-1936 Brewster William

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Explanatory The following M.S. notes relate to a collection of bird skins made for me in Arizona by Mr. F. Stephens, and now included in my general collection. They are in short the collectors field- notes and were originally in the form of blank books of small size, each of which was sent to me as soon as filled, with the birds which it catalogued. The numbers in red will are those of my own catalogue. The encircled numbers relate to birds which I have disposed of to others; all not thus checked will be found in any collection William Brewster. November 1891.

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The numbers in black ink are those of the collector The numbers in red ink are those of my own regular Catalogue.

28 Feb. 1881. 405 The Chiricahua Mts are located in the south east corner of Ariz; some of the foothills even reach- ing the line of New Mex. and the Mexican state of Sonora. Several small streams run east and west from the summit; the former into the San Simon valley and the latter into the Sulphur Spring valley; and San Bernardino valley. The two first valleys are tributary to the Rio Gila. The San Bernardino valley runs south and water from it flows to the Pacific near Enaymas. The valleys are grassy plains but in the San Simon is more

or less low bushes, mostly Mesquit. In the foothills begins the scrub Oak. It is evergreen; the leaves being insensibly replaced with new ones in May. A little higher the junipers come in, being called "Cedar" by most people here. Still higher on the north sides of the hills is a little Pinon and scrub Pine and on the summits is a heavy growth of Pine, red and black. In the steep gilches is some Fir, and on the steep hill sides, mostly facing the north, near the summit are patches of Aspen. The valleys are about 5000 ft altitude and the high- ests summits perhaps 900

In the valleys are various species of Sparrows. Scaled Email DC. The Woodhouse Jay. Aphaeconas var. woodhousei is not common here in the brush along streams in the valleys and low foothills. A. var arizonate is found in the foothills from the lower cdge of the Pines down. Oryzommus var macrolophus, replacing it in the Pines. Lophophanus wollweberi is found in the scrub oak region. L. imornatus ranging higher, the latter especially being rather rare here. Sitta pygmea is common in the Pines and S. var aenuleata occasional. Psaltriparus plumbeus is

rare. Found in flocks of six to fifteen in the scrub Oaks. Sialia [illegible] is rare in the low valleys. S. Mexicana abundant in all timber. Ixodes dorsalis is now occasional in the canons containing timber and water. In the spring they are common and in summer tolerably plenty also. A nest I found in 1876 was under a tuft of grass in heavy pine timber about 6000 ft altitude. I find it useless to try to describe the songs of birds as I have no ear for music so I shall not attempt to do so with any. but very rare on

4 Meh 81 Cave Crub Bactris Co.A.T. 568 Penicenta var boncardi? 6.6x1.3 8 5689 Ditto 6.7x7.9 2 3 5690 Ditto To J. A. Allen Mrs. Lox. 700 6.5x8.7 8 Badly shot in the head J. brown. Legs pale flesh Bill thick This species I have not seen in Arizona before. I took several near Mr Bayard N.M. in 1876. I saw mates to the first two but did not get them. They acted somewhat like Wrens, hiding among the rocks and flushing from the grass some distance from where they had lit. I went into the low branches of scrub Oaks, from which I shot them. They were on every scrub Oak hillsides, and were ap- parently mated. Notes sparrow- like in character, short song and chirp. Food, seeds and a few insects.

4 Moh 81 5-691 4 Picus scalaris var? 7.6 X 13.3 B Iolk, bin. Rather common in scents Oak. 5-692 5 Lophophanes wollweberi 5.7 X 7.7 B I'm, Bill Blackish, Legs Bluish, Common here in flocks of half a dozen, I'ore insects. Would camp our here last night as much for the purpose of investigating some caves said to contain large quantities of bird droppings as for collecting. I went too of the largest caves this P.M. and found on the floors tons of bat droppings, and a little from birds. Also from a few feathers (Primaries and rectrices) of Pampitila saputitis, and a few of

Taled Sparvirus. This locality Cave Creek is seven miles south of Galeyville A.T. The east half of Pima Co is now Dachise Co, and I will so note it. This country here is very broken and rocky with numerous small caves. I expected to find many Hawk and Chols here on that creek, but today I have seen more bird Sparrow Taleds, and as the sun does not get into the creek bottom until 9.30 the birds don't get in where I can get at them very early in the morning. Saw a Tachypeta thallassina this morning. Weather warm

5th Mch 81 Cane Creek Heard an Antrostomus nuttallii at daybreak. A little rain last night. 5693 6 Melospiza lincolnii 5.8x7.9 8 pm Common along streams J Mr. brown. Food insects. 5.1 x 7.6 5694 7 Lophophanes wollweberi 5.7 x 7.6 ♀ 5695 8 Ditto 5.1 x 8. ♂ 5696 9 Ditto to Gordon Plummer 5.7 x 7.6 ♀ Carniceps 10 Junco can. immaculatus? 6.2x9.2 ♀ 5697 J. Mr brown. Bill & legs flesh color. As I left my quart of skins at Galeyville I cannot compare the sp. of junco. The flock contained several var. arizonus one of which I tore two badly with shot to skin. Food, insects 5698 11 Spizella socialis? 5.5x8.9 ♀ Arizona J. Mr brown. Bill dark fleshcolor. Legs Pale brownish. Food, seeds. Large flock. Kept mostly in trees.

5- Meh 81 5699 12 Thryothorus var. luteogaster 5.4X7.2 ♂ J. fram. Bill blackish. Legs blackish. Food, insects. Common in weeds and brush along the stream. Shy and difficult to entice out in sight sufficiently to shoot at. By throwing stones near where I hear them, they will sometimes venture out to see what the disturbance is. 5700 13 Ditto 5.6X7.8 ♂ Shot through the head. 5701 Molothrus lincolnii 5.3X7.6 ♀ Extremely fat. 5702 Prince. (caniceps) 6.3X9 ♀ I cannot tell now whether this is caniceps or dorsalis. The best account of the sp. of prince I have seen is in Henshaws Report on birds collected by Linn in Ariz. State N. M. & Cols. which I have not at hand.

6 March 81 Short showers of rain fell in the afternoon yesterday, accom- panied by hail and heavy thunder and sharp lightning. Wind was very high during the night and today is still very high. I heard that a corvy of "Fool Quail" were oc- casionally seen a couple miles up the Creek, and today moved camp to the vicinity, with the intention of looking for them tomorrow. On the way up saw two Deer, and shot a pair of Curvirostra var. mexicana in scrub pines. Saw no others. A couple months ago I saw a male near the summit, and last July I saw a brood of full fledged young which comprise all I have seen but

6 Mch 81 5703 16 Curvirostra variegicana 7.IX.11.9 ♂ 5704 Ditto 7.IX.11.8 ♀ Iris dark brown. Pine seeds. The jaw muscles were extraordinarily developed on the side Toward which the lower mandible crossed.

Sold to Gordon Phimmoer for $6. 7 Mch 81 18 Picus stricklandi 8.3 X 13.9 B 5705 J. dk brown. Habits similar to other Woodpeckers. Killed this one from a scrub Pine, though they are usually found in Oaks. Notes very harsh and sound as if they were trying a lower key than their voice is capab of using, or rather as if it was made too low in the throat. Not particularly rare. Rather shy. Have seen more but small so far this winter. I have never seen them out of this range of mountains 5706 19 Dihypophiues thyroiders 8.8 X 16.2 & jin J. dk. Brown. Between the muscles and skin on the upper side of the wings were innumerable eggs of some parasite. Not commo sure. Found in the Pines.

7 inch 5/ Cave Creek. (held to C. 13. Coy @ 1.25 5707 20 Chrysomitis pinus 5.x8.9 6 C.dk brown. Seeds, Common, 5708 (21) Myiadistes townsendi 8.6x13.1 2 22 Ditto 8.8x13.6 9 5709 C.dk brown. Food insects. Not common. Pinons. Not shy. Have a habit of sitting perfectly still several minutes at a time. Flight slow. 5710 23 Picus stricklandi 8.1x14, 9 First female I have seen this winter. 5711 24 Curvirostra var. mexicana 6.8x11.4 9 5712 Ditto 5.1x9.4 9 juw Basty old enough to be able To fly. 5718 26 Lophophanes wollweberi 5.x77 6 27 5714 Phyraphicus var. omichalis 8.2x15.1 9 juw J. black. Food small Black ants Not common. Keep in the scrub Pines.

7 March 81 Saw a large bird having much the appearance of the Calv Vulture, but it did not appear much if any larger than the Turkey Vulture. It was flying at perhaps a quarter of a mile distance, I could distinguish some white under the wings and tail. Otherwise it was black. Killed a Deer and saw two others. Weather pleasant.

8 March 81. Cave Creek. 5715 28 Aegilus calandulus 4.2X6.5 8 I black. I arrest. Common especially in deciduous timber. I think a few summer breed. 5716 29 Sialia mexicana 6.5X12.1 F Common especially females. 5717 30 Lophophanes avolweberi 4.8X7.6 9 5718 Ditto % H.W. Keeshaw. 4.9X7.8 8 5719 Pealtrifarns plumbens 4.7X6. I brown. Saw two others. Bare. Somb Oaks. The others disappeared when I shot this one. 33 5720 Sitta var. aculeata 5.8X11.1 8 I. d.h. brown. Common in Pines

March 8th 1881 I have hunted the locality where the "Fool L mail" were said to "use", pretty thoroughly several times but fail to find them. I found where the covey had sat over night some time ago. It was in a little hollow among the brush As our provisions are about exhausted we shall have to go back to Galeville in the morning. From there we will go to Morses Mill, which is on the other side of the range from where we are now camped and only about eight miles distant air line. By the nearest wagon road it is over seventy miles, and by the nearest way a horse could be rode and led, about two

10 Mch 81 10 mls North of Galeyville U.S. 5721 34 Cialia arctica 7.2x1.9, 8 I brown. Stomach contained butts, crickets and a large white Curvar. Small flock seen, Grassy plains, where they flew from one weed stalk to another Restless and rather shy. Drove to a spring seven miles S.E. of Camp Bowie. Weather very stormy with snow in the morning. Sent 4 P. for calculation 6 P. stichicus 143 2 P. stichicus 57 3 Holly wigos 153 5 Dendrocliviae 47 1 another 31 4. Loophi [illegible] Trieta.

12 Mch 81 Chiricahua Mts A.O. 5722 35 Aphlecoma var. arizonae 129X9.7 9 Idk brown. Good broken acorns dc. Found in the foothills mostly. So in flocks, of five to twenty. Nestles and in most localities shy, but around Mills dc where they feed on the grain mixed through the horse droppings they are more easily approached; as is usual with all birds, when they are not accustomed to the presence of human beings, they are very shy of them. Arrived at Morres Mill This P.M. This mill is about five miles up the canyon where it widens out in a sort of basin having a circle of moun- tains about it two or three thousand feet still higher.

The hills are heavily timbered except on the southern exposures where the timber seems to dry out and is only stunted growths among the glass. Of level ground there is practically none. Small streams run through most of the canons but all combined sink before reaching the ravines. Altitude of mill about 7000 ft. We are now not more than two miles from where we were on Cave Creek, but to get here we traveled over seventy miles and then came by the shortest road

12 Mch 8/ Morse's Mill 7,000 ft. 5723 36 Callipepla agramadæ 10.2 X 12 F J. brown. Found in desert plains, seldom in the vicinity of water. Usually found in flocks of six to ten, occasionally as many as twenty to thirty. Shy and in most places difficult to get; in most cases I do not get more than one out of a flock. 37 Melanerpes formicivorus F 5724 J. white. Not very common here. I have never seen any acorns driven into holes bored in the bark of trees for that purpose here as the sp. is in the habit of doing in Cali. Otherwise there is little difference in their habits. 5725 38 Picus stricklandi 8.2 X 14.3 F Killed at very short range. No Char. B. Cory.

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14 Mch 1881 Morse's Mill "7,000 ft" Chiricahua Mt. A.T. 5726 39 Abhlecona var arizonæ 12.3 X 19. 9 jin 40 Picus var. harrisii 9.1 X 15.6 ½ 5727 J. brown. Pines, Common. 5728 41 Tirus buttoni 5.2 X 5.5 ♂ Oak, brown. Scrub Oaks. Not particularly rare here and in Southern New Mexico in March April and May, in which months I also found them rather common in San Diego Co. Cal. Apparently found only in mountains. I took amit and four eggs near St. Buyard M.M. in '76. 5729 42 Picus stricklandi 8.1 X 12.3 ♂ 5730 43 Ditto 7.9 X 14.2 ♀ 5731 44 Dendroeca olivaceæ 5.7 X 9. Bad, 5732 45 Ditto 5.4 X 9.2 Bad. 5733 46 Ditto 5.2 X 5.5 ♀ 5734 47 Ditto 3.8 X 8.3 ♀

14 Mach 81 (Morse's Mill) "7000ft" Chiricahua Mts It is a little singular that the first Dendroica to make its appearance is D. olivacea. They were in Pines, Actions like D. occidentalis. Note a "cheerp" repeated once or twice a minute. Were searching the bunches of pine leaves (usually at the extremity of the branch) for insects, of which their stomachs were full. J. dth. bira. Although they were not very far from each other I saw no two together in the same immediate neighborhood. 5735- 48 Lophophanes mullerweberi 5x8. 6 5736 49 Ditto 7.9x76 ♀ The first pleasant day for some days.

16 March 5 [Morse's Mill] Chiricahua Mts a. 2. 5737 50 Vireo butttoni 4.9 X 8. ↑aa 51 Baeathiparus plumbeus 3.5 X 6.2 ♀ Iris straw color, 5739 52 Ditto. To C. B. Cory 4.3 X 6. ♂ Iris brown 5740 53 Ditto 3.6 X 6.2 ♂ 5741 54 Ditto 4.6 X 6.2 ♀ I. straw color 55 Ditto 3.5 X 6.2 ♂ I. brown 5742 Found a large flock of Titse, Tits; numbering probably twenty individuals. They were accompa- panied by two or three L. wollweberi, a Kinglet and the Vireo, and a couple L. var. nevleata. 5743 56 Lophophanes wollweberi 5 X 7.7 ♂ 5744 57 Myiagra phryoides 9.1 X 16.5 By G. Phurner.

16 Mech 81 (Morse's Mill) 5745 58 James (cicernus) 6.3X9.1 ♀ 59 Ditto 2o C.B.Cory 6.2X9.2 ♂ 5746 Iris golden yellow. Yesterday was another stormy day with an inch of snow falling during the forenoon and which was all melted by sunset. I did not attempt any collecting during the day, but mended harness & Today is not very pleasant and I should have had poor success if I had not found the flocks of Tits. 5747 Melanerpes fomicivorus 8.9X17.2 ♂ 5748 Dialia supicana 6.9X12.9 ♂ 5749 To J.A.Allin 62 James (cicernus) 6.8X9.7 ♀ 63 Ditto 6.2X9.2 — 5750 Signal organs destroyed by shot. Probably ♀, Iris golden yellow.

17 March 81 Chiricahua Mts. (Moise's Mill) 6751 64 Ptilo var. [illegible] XIXII. 6 Food insects & seeds Another sad day. About three inches of snow fell this forenoon. Have hardly heard the sound of a birds chirp all day.

18 Mech 8/ Chiricahua Mts a. T. (Morse's Mill) 5752 65 Parns meridionalis? 5.2 X 8.5 8 Iris dark brown, Insects. As near as I can make it out this is P. muridalis but I may be mistaken. I saw another with it (probably a female) but after shooting this I did not see the other again, and supposing this to be septentrionalis I did not look for the other as I cared for only a single specimen of common species. This was up a canon about half way to the summit from the mill. My attention was attracted by its note which was like that of septentrionalis It was in an Oak when first seen but flew into a Spruce. The only Parns I saw in N.M. were a very few P. montanus

18 Mch 81 Chiricahua Mts A.T. (Morsillicana) 5753. 66 Berthia familiaris 4.8X7.1 9 Ind. brown. Insects This and a couple others Taken here last season are all of this species I have seen west of the Missouri River. Bro.H. Ready wrote me that he found them breeding near Santa Cruz Cal. where they took their eggs. 5754 67 James [illegible] 6.2X9.2 9 68 Ditto. 6.7X9.6 8 5755 This has been a pleasant day overhead but very sloppy underfoot. Most of the snow melted off today

14 March 81 (Morris's Hill) 5756 69 Salthiparus flambens 4.3x5.7 ♂ Iris dh brown. 5757 70 Lophophanes ruficollis 5"x7.6 ♂ 5758 71 Aphilocoma var. aigna 13.5x20.1 ♂ Y. g. a. allen 72 5759 Endrocea olivaceae 5.4x8.9 ♂ 73 5766 Sitta pygmaea 4.3 x 7.7 ♀ 74 5761 Dittis 4.4 x 7.8 ♀♂ Some killed on cliff top J. M. Brown. Not very comfortable here. Today has been very pleasant but the birds do not come in very freely. The above represent five hours search and I found nothing else worth shooting. Jan Two Dur.

20 March 81 Chiricahua Mts. A.T. (Morse's Mill) 5762 75 Turdus migratorius 10X16x. 6 F. thr. brown. Food insects. Not common. I have seen perhaps a dozen this winter. 5763 76 Lethohanus wollweberi 4.9X76 9 77 Pendroca olivacea 5.2 X 8.9 8 jinw 5764 As I was watching this Warbler it flew down apparently trying To catch a falling insect but failing to catch it before it reached the ground it lit on the ground and picked it up and immediately flew back to its old position. Sung a few low notes. 5765 78 Chlhyrapiens thyridius 8.8X6.3 9 5766 79 Cinclus mexicanus 7.9X2.1 8 J. brown. Insects. This is the first bird of this species I have seen in Ariz. They are rare in the Son

(Morse's Mill) Bernardine Mt. Cala and I did not find them in southern New Mexico altho the cariors of two raffles Gila is suited to their habits. My attention was called to the song of some bird, crowing from the mountain brook running past camp. I thought at first it was the song of some Mocking Thrush for it sounded very similar. On looking for the author I found the sound came from behind some Willows at the water's edge and observing ripples in the water as if some bird was bathing. I was still more puzzled as I could not see the bird.

(Morse's Mill) and the thought of its being an Ongel did not seem to me as I had never heard Their song Just across the brooks was a stick rock wall and the sound reflected from it mingled with the purting of the brook was deliciously sweet all the more so as it was a very pleasant afternoon. The shot songs were rivaled and repeated with short pauses between and sounded at first as if They were imitations but I soon came to the conclusion that they were original. They were so low that they were not audible more than a couple hundred yards at most. The shot worried the bird in the meek

(Morse's Mill) but did not disable its wings yet it seemed unable to quire from the water. On my approach it dived repeatedly, using its wings for propulsion under the water. The sun showed half me on it, and as the air clung to the plumage it looked like a ball of silver flying through the water as a bird does in air. On the surface it paddled along very much like a Phalarope. The flesh was dark colored and tough and smell fishy. The inside of the skin looked as if it might be some small wrasse being unlike that of any other Ocean I have seen in appearance

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27 Meh 81 Chiricahua Mts Ariz. 88. 9. Plumnerus (Morse's Mill) Otitophaga picta 5.7 X 86 89. Glauceidium or californicum 6.5 X 13.1 A I yellow Was sitting on the extreme Top of a dead Pine, Time 10 a.m. Note "cm" repeated about once a second. Heard another but failed to find it. The only others I ever saw were a flock of four, near Mt. Bayard & N. Peak in 1876. Stomach empty. 5777 90. Dendroeca livaceae 5.1 X 8.6 B jun 5778 91. Ditto 7. Stephen 5.4 X 9, Bad 5779 Ditto To G. B. Cory 6.2 X 8.9 B 5780 Ditto To C. B. Cory 5.2 X 8.8 2 5781 Ditto 6.7 X 8.2 2 Found a flock of three Warblers this morning, high up a steep mountain side. They were feeding along northward. As it was very difficult climbing in account of the loose rocks I had to shoot at shorter range than I liked.

24 Mech 51. (Morse's Mill) 5782 9.5 Gymnopus var. macrodophus. 12.1X17.7 B 5783 9.6 Ditto 11.6X17.2 ♀ 5784 Ditto 12.1X17.6 ♀ Three days are common in the Pines well up the moun- tains, but are wary and difficult of approach. Usually when they see anyone in [illegible] they fly from the top of a tree to the lower part of one a little further away and commence jumping higher from one limb to another and on reaching the top immediately fly to the lower part of another tree to repeat the same maneuver. If we can follow fast enough to get within range before they reach the top of the tree

24 Mech 8 Chiricahua Nuts Ariz. (Morse's Mill) they happen to be in one may get a shot - but they must keep behind the trunk of a tree or some other cover. I was particularly fortunate to get three today, but a flock were coming down to drink and I got it in front of them. They are noisy and have quite a variety of calls some of them being very harsh. I think the species is more shy here than in most mountains. The day has been pleasant and birds are on the move 5785 98 Myiadelus townsendi 8.5 X 13.1 9 5786 90 Parus muridalis 4.7 X 7.9 2 5787 100 Sitto 3.2 X 8.6 3 #899/100 were with a flock of P. pinonius.

25 March 81 Chiricahua Mts. (Mora's Mill) 5788 Dendroeca olivacea 5.1 x 8.5 ♀ 5789 Ditto 5.3 x 8.5 Bad 5790 Ditto 5.1 x 8.5 ♂ jun 5791 To Nat. mus. Carus mirificionalis 5.1 x 8.3 ♀ 5792 Ditto To J. Stephens 5.1 x 8.2 ♂ The One of the Chickadees was with the Warblers the other was with some Nuttatau Saw no mates to witter. 5793 106 Bycanimus var macrolophus 2.5 x 1.8 ♀

26 Mch 81 Chiricahua Mts Ariz. (Morse's Mill) 5794 107 Pipilo var. mugalongus 5.6x.05 8 Red Bill black, legs pale brownish. Common in brush usually along streams. Have a variety of calls some harsh and rather similar to that of a Cat Bird. another, when sitting in a tree. "Jack Bacheon". Great scratches in the leaves. Resident. 5795 108 Cinclus dorsalis 6.5x9.5 ♀ I. brown. Not as plenty yet as cinclus. 5796 109 Cyphomimus var. macrocephalus 11X17. ♀ jw 5797 110 Setophaga picta 5.6x8.8 ♀ 5798 111 Ditto 5.2x8.6 8 5799 112 Ditto 5.5x8.5 8 These three birds were chasing one another from tree to tree. 5800 113 James cinereus 6.2x9.8 ♀ 5801 114 Dendroica coronata 5.7x8.7 ♀ First seen this season. I. Brown. With a shrub "Chiff" Very common in the migration zone. Resident.

26 Mach. 81 (Morse's Mill.) 5802 115 Colaetes mexicanus 12g x 20g 8 C. Mr. brown. Stomach contained a quantity of ants. Common in all timber. Mary. This one has paler wings and tail than usual, and also has in- dications of red on the male, and may be slightly hybridized. 5803 116 Curvirostra var. mexicana 6.9X12. 8 Very rare on this side of the Pats. Still pleasant weather Heard a couple Hammering birds yours today.

27 Meh. 81 Chiricaluma Mt. Ariz. Morse's Mill 5404 117 Picus stricklandi 8.1X14.8 ♀ 28 Mich 81 5405 118 Tino butttoni 5.7X7.9 ♂ Note "Pzur" 5406 119 Setophaga ticta 5.7X5.8 ♂ 5407 20 Ditto 5.6X8.7 ♀ 5408 121 Pipilo var. megelonyx 5.8X7.3 ♂ 5409 122 Regularis calculatus 4.2X6.9 ♀ Not by mistake, thinking it was a Tino.

29 Mch 81 Chiricahua Mts. Ariz. Morse's Mill. 5810 123 Althyrhaphicus var michaliy 5.2 X 4.9 8 jm 5811 124 Canus musidionalis. 5.1 X 8.7 8 Indications of a white subinciliary line. Note as much like P. montanus that I mistook it for one, 5812 125 Dilto (to C. B. Cory) 5 X 8.2 8 5813 126 Pinus cincinus 6.9 X 9.8 8 5814 127 Abblecoma var. arizonae 3.1 X 20.4 9 5815 128 Chrysornithis pinus 4.9 X 5.6 8 Took a tramp to the top of the range today to see if birds ever fletter higher up but found nothing of much value except The Chickadees. I think as long as I seem to have this locality pretty well cleaned out of birds I will move down the canon two or three miles tomorrow for a few days.

30 March 188 Chiricahua Mt Ariz. 5816 129 Picus shicklandi 8.4 x 7.2 8 5817 /30 Chrysonitis healtria 7.8 x 7.8 8 Brown. First sun this season. Not very common except in a few localities. I can hardly make out any differences among this species here and have found but very few that answered to the description of var. arizonal. Cala examples are almost identical with those from N. M. Baird speaks of var. mixicana being found at the "Copper Mines". I lived within ten miles of the mines over a year, collecting most of the time and I failed to get even a very dark var. arizonal. Kicks more in trees than C. tristis. 131 Lobophorus wollumbiri 5/18.1 - 5818 Denniol organs shot away. Probably 8

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31 March 8 Chiricahua Mts. Ariz. 5821 /34 Aphlecoma var. arizonae 12.8 X 9.6 ↑ 5822 /35 ♀ 1to 12.7 X 9.6 ♀ inv 5823 /36 ♀ 1to 12.7 X 9.7 ♀ 5824 /37 Cyrtonyx massena. 8.7 X 10.7 ♀ Measurement of length is 5/6th of two longest tail feathers which seem to be differently shaped from the others, so that at first they look like coverts. Thighs very macular. Tish white Iris dark brown. When walking up a gulch at the foot of a steep peak a pair of these Partridges flushed from the grass about ten feet ahead of. The female went first closely followed by the male, which I knew by the black under tail coverts. I was tired and was carrying my gun on my shoulder not up

feecting to me anything just there, and by the time I was ready to fire both had whipped over into the next gulch which happened to be about 50 yards away. On looking then I first flushed the male and missed him clean as he wound through the thick brush. He rose within six feet. Going a few feet further the female rose, and happening to take a direction that was a little clearer of brush I got him. Each time each flew they uttered a low whistling "weeewee" The peculiar note combined with the sudden rise so close does not help steady over aim, flight swift. Did not see the male again. Locality thickly timbered with small fir, cedar & Oak and underneath tall "zacaton" grass. Roosting

31 March 1851 Chiricahua Mts Ariz 5825 138 Buncaceu var. boncardi 6.9 X 8.7 ♂ Found in brush on the summit of a high ridge. 5826 139 Cotophaga pieta 5.6 X 8.4 ♂ 5827 140 Vireo huttoni 5.1 X 8.4 ♂ 5828 141 [illegible] canicops 6.1 X 9.3 ♀ [illegible] brown. Killed at short range. 5829 142 Abblecoma var. arizonae 12.7 X 9.36 ♂ Heard an Oriole today [illegible] C.P. Cory.

1 April 81. To Gordon Phenomenes 5830 /43 Picus stricklandi 7.7X14.9 Would lay in two or three weeks 5831 /44 Ditto 8.2X14.9 Q 5832 /45 Thryothorus var. filiformis 5.7X7. ? Poor skin. 5833 /46 Colioptila caerulea 4.7X6.3 ? 5834 /47 Ditto 4.8X6.2 Q 5835 /48 Ditto 4.7X6.4 ? I.dk. Brown, Giggards contained small insects and a few small Catapillars. First seen this season. The Colioptila do not range high in the mountains 5836 /49 To C.R. Cory. Dindroeca brignesecens 5.2X7.8 ? 5837 /50 Ditto 5.1X8.1 ? 5838 /51 Ditto 5.1X8.1 ? 5839 /52 Ditto 5.1X8. ? 5840 /53 Ditto To G. Phenomenes, 5.2X8.2 ? 5841 /54 P. altritriamus plumbeus 4.5X6. ? Saw an Octris harisonum but failed to get a shot at him

2 April 1881 Chiscahna Mts. driz. 5842 155 Octobhaga Lieta 55x79 P The black tips to the feathers at the sides and back of the neck are absent, giving those parts a peculiar gray appearance. 5843. 156 Cicus stricklandi 7.8 x 5.8 B Saved the tongue and sternum of this bird. 4 April 81 Sulphur Spring Valley 5844 157 Pooeliga billinata 5.8x8.5- B Found in plains wherever low brush is found; not in grass plains or mountains. Scarcely gregarious as more than half a dozen are seldom seen together. Sh. accident. Iris dkh. brown. Eats & insect. 5845- 158 Poecetes gramininus var? 6.2x10.2 P Ish. brown. Eats & insects. Common in Prairie.

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5 April 1858 5852 10 miles east of Tombstone Ariz 165 Myiarchus cinerascens 6.8 X 27 8 I brown. Common in timber along streams and valleys, not in heavy Timber of mountains. Tiny feet. 5853 166 Harpophylax crissalis 4.21 X 12.3 8 Light brown. Stomach contained insects and a small lizard. Not very common. Found in low brush along streams & valleys. Not a cactus thrush like war. halmeri and bendirei. Hants for food on the ground under the brush. Flat summers. Shy. 5854 167 Polioptila caerulea 4.9 X 6.6 8 5855 168 Empidonax obscurus 6.1 X 9.1 8 I.dk brown. First one seen in Ariz. Saw but two or three in N. Mex. There are but few trees here and scattered, and those I saw in N. Mex. were in a similar locality. Heard a shrill "chirp" while flying.

6 April 1881 10 miles East of Tombstone Ariz 169 Troglodytes var. parkinianus 9 I. oliv brown. Low bench. W. common. First one seen this season. 5857 170 Polioptila cairiula 4.9X6.5 9 5858 171 Tyrannus vociferans 9.1X5.9 8 I brown. Abundant in summer. T. verticalis is rare here, but very abundant in Southern Cala where I have never seen T. vociferans. It is a little odd that vociferans should be sur- rounded by verticalis without mixing with it. Verticalis nor vociferans winter here. One of my horses got a little broken last night and I shall have to shoot her. Will have some trouble to get another probably.

April 81 6 miles east of Tombstone Ariz 5859 72 Empidonax hammondii 5.4X8.9 ♀ 5860 73 Empidonax obacurus 5.8X8.9 ♂ 5861 74 Ctenostoma carolinianus 11.X16.9 ♀ J.ilk brown. Legs pale red. Very abundant here. Borrowed a horse and moved a couple miles north to the nearest house, and I could leave my wife there until I could buy another horse 5862 175- Dasyornis sayus 7.2X11.8 ♀ J.ilk brown. Common in prairie fusching on weedstalks. Don't fragment timber. Found singly. 5863 176 Myiarchus cineraceus 8.6X12.8 ♂ 5864 Pipilo fusces 8.8X11.6 ♂ Common in rocky localities in plains & valleys. Not my mom Cains. I sight-broken insects & seeds. Moulting.

8 April 81 9 Miles East of Tombstone A.T. 5465 178 Centurus andpygiating. X159 9 Oak brown Bill black, Legs pale, with a green reflection from the large scutella. This is the furthest east I have seen this species. Did not find it on the upper Gila. Frequent marguit trees and the Giant Bactus. The latter are not found this far east and the marguit are low brush here. This bird was on Oak and Walnut trees which are very sparsely scattered along this arroya. We are now within a mile of the divide between the Gila and the Sonora rivers, on the Sonora side. Tombstone is on the Gila side Prairie with very low barren mits.

8 April 81 9 Miles East of Tombstone Ariz. 5866 179. Cayornis sagax 78X121 B Brown Bill & legs black. 5867 80 Empidonax obscurus. 6.X91 8 S.dh. brown, Bill Black above and light brown below, Legs black. 5868 81 Minis polyglottus 9.8X131 Q J. brownish yellow. Bill & legs black. Common in summer in valleys. Eat but a short distance up the foothills of high mountains. Abundant around streams in Tombstone Cal. Sang greatly in quality of song. Very fond of figs and small fruits in orchards. Swallows and Humming birds have been working southward for a day or two past. 5869 82 Antrostomus mittali 8.2X171 8 J.dh. brown. (Belted)

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,

9 April 81 19 miles East of Tombstone Ariz. 5874 187 Myiarchus cinerascens 8.9X12.8 8 5-8 75 188 Ditto 8.6X12.8 9 J. M. brown. Bill 9 legs black, Matts. 10 April 81, 5876 189 Octins bullochi 8.7X11.8 2 J. M. brown, Bill Black, Plush at base below, Legs dull bluish Dussets, Tiny fat. First one seen this season. Not very common in the foot-hills of Chiricahua Pits last year. Very abundant in Richards's southern Coal where they are very fond of figs and berries.

18 April 81 Tombstone Ariz. 5477 190 Balmakiza bicolor 6.7XII.1 8 Pale brown. Bill dark from above, light bluish below. Legs brown. Stomach contained buds and seeds. First seen this season. Several flocks seen during the day. not one per cent of which were males in full breeding plumage. Many were in various stages of molting plumage making the flocks look very particolorad. Migrants were only. Succeeded in purchasing mold horse yesterday and today we drove fifteen miles from Tombstone, crossing the San Pedro river nine miles west Brushy plains. Are taking the shortest road to Tucson. It is not much traveled now.

14 April 81 35 Miles East of Torecon Hill 5478. 191. Sctinus harisum 83N21 8 Ith plum. Bill black bluish at base below. Legs dark bluish Insects. Saw several of this species today migrating. I do not think any will stay to bred on the plains as I believe they breed in the mountains. Drove 20 Miles. Soon after starting the brush gave way to grass and later in the day we skirted the north end of the Whetstone Mountains passing through scattering Semi-Oak which further on lower down on the Plains was replaced by Migrating in scattering [illegible] streaks along the washes. We are now out of

Oak timber for good, as our donation will be confined to the lower plains except we make a trip to the mountains again. We are now at the extreme eastern edge of the arid deserts, and nearly out of the grass regions. I have already seen a few Bactus plants and tomorrow we will likely find Harpohyminia abundant. Scattered all over this desert are Mesquit trees sometimes forming groves. An old Mesquit is about the size and form of a very old Apple tree. It does not spread out quite as much as that tree usually does. It is deciduous, now budding out. Foliage very scant. 5879 192 Octopus parviflorum 86x12,k 8 193 Ditto badly shot 82x19 9 194 Calliope squamata 10.7x14.7 ♀ Saw two flocks.

Cimoga Sta. 16-April 81 5882 196 Tachycineta bicolor 5.7X/25 ♂ D.sh. brown. Bill black. Legs brown Common in the migration. 5883 196 Ficus scalaris 7.3X/3. ⚫ 5884 197 Helminthothaga luciae 4.1X6.5 ♀ D.sh. brown. Bill black above, bluish below. Legs black. This is the first of this species I ever saw. Was in a patch of large willows (no undergrowth) along a brook at the south lower end of the cimoga. I mistook it at first for a Tolihteta, which species its actions somewhat resembled. It acted somewhat like a Kinglet also, feeding at the ends of the branches. Restless, not shy. Heard one note. Sweet. 5885 198 Pyrocephalus var. mexicanus 6.X/0.1 ♂ 5886 199 Ditto to G. Phummer. 5.9X/0.2 ⚫ 5887 200 Ditto 6.1X/0.3 ⚫ 5888 201 Ditto 5.5X/0. ⚫

15 April 81 Bimaga. 5889 20 Gypophalos war mexicanus 5.7.1.9 Citing. Modification complete. Dark brown, Bill and legs black Abundant here. Frequent in brush along water. Action similar to other Gypactelus except that I saw several fluttering stationary in the air similar to a Spurrow Hawk. Passed Pantano, a station on the Southern Pacific R.R., and followed down a cienga from it to the old overland station Bimaga, now abandoned since the R.R. took its occupation away. A cienga (see-in-x-ga) is a sort of marsh peculiar to this country. It is caused by the contraction of a valley by rocky ridge crossing the country and the waters having cut a channel through it.

subterranean streams above are forced to the surface by the bed rock. Probably in former times a pond or lake was formed about but became filled by the deposit of sand and dirt, and now form more or less of a marsh, overgrown with grass and rushes. Through the cotton along the stream are more or less willows, bottomwoods. Just where we are camped, the stock had left the underbrush satin down. Further down are some twistfuls. He found birds as flew that I stopped, and will lay here tomorrow. We did not intend to stop before reaching Jackson so brought as little provisions that we can lay over but one day. It is 25 miles to Jackson. The R.R. passes through the cotton.

15 april 81 Cimagna Sta 5890 203 Hendraca nigricans 4.9 x 7.3 9. 5891 207 Seturus encallatus 8.2 x 10.6 8 1.dk brown. Bill black bluish at base below. Legs dark bluish. Not common. Cottonwoods & willows Nest pendant, cup shaped, not so thick as that of J. bullocki, 5892 0.5- Tino pusillus 5 x 7.1 8 1.dk brown. Bill dark above, light below. Legs dark. Frequent willows and undergrowth along streams. Active nesters and moving for so small a bird. Nest pendant from a forked twig, usually hanging for two to three feet from the ground in dense thickets. 4 to 5 eggs. Insects Abundant here. Breed in May.

16 April '81 Biomega Station. 5893 206 Helminthophaga lucia 7.7 X 6.5 9 5894 207 Ditto & F. Stephens 4.5 X 6.4 8 5895 208 Ditto 4.2 X 6.6 9 Actions quite similar to those of the Knight. Think I heard the note "Swee". 5896 209 Vo C. B. Cory Cassini Visco albumina 5.7 X 8.7 8 I know Bill dark from above lighter below. Legs dark bluish. Common in foothills. Bred, but I have never seen their nests. First one seen this season. 5897 210 Dendroeca aictina 5.7 X 7.8 8 Dark brown. Bill dark from above lighter below. Legs dull brown. Common in the migrations. 5898 211 Stelgidopteryx serripennis 5.1 X 6.3 9 J. bill & legs dark lemon. Common. Bred. Slow of flight.

16 April 8 5899 212 Tachycineta thalassina 5X11.4 ♀ [illegible] brown Bill from Back. Common. Flight swift. 5900 213 Auriparus flaviceps 4.2X6.4 ♀ Brown bill and legs Hach. Common in brush usually not far from streams. Nest large, globular, with hole in the side. Placed in a hackberry tree if such is convenient. 5901 214 Vireo [illegible] 5.6X9.1 ♀ 5902 215 Pifilo [illegible] 7.7X9.7 ♂ 5903 216 Colioptila caerulea 4.7X6.6 ♂ Rained during the night and occasionally during the day with thunder and some hail.

17 April '81 Biemega Station 5904 217 Helmintostaphyga luciai 7.3x6.7 ♀ 5905 218 Ditto 4.1x6.6 ♀ 5906 219 Berthilypis trichas 5.7x6.9 ♂ I. brown, Bill black, bluish underneath Legs pale brown. Abundant along streams. Insects 5907 220 Pyrocephalus var. mexicanus 6.9x8 ♂ 5908 221 Myioides fusciilis [illegible] 4.7x6.5 ♂ I. brown, Bill dark above, pale brown below. Legs brown. Common in Willows and underbrush along streams. 5909 222 Hydrochilidon fusipes 9.6x23.9 ♀ I. dark brown. Bill and legs black This one and three others were flying over the marsh. Not common. Larvae catch an insect on the wing like a Flycatcher. 5910 223 Pipilo foxi chloronius 7.8x11.2 ♂ Drove half way to Tucson in the afternoon.

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also saw some Sparrows. As I knew they would shoid before I could attune to them I killed now. As we had no means to carry water for the horses we could not have stopped if we had wished, as they were all the afternoon and night and most of the fore- noon without water as it was. In this part of the desert I saw many ground Squirrels and the common Black-tail Jack Rabbit and another kind of Hare I have never seen elsewhere than in the neigh- borhood of Tucson. It is known here as An Antelope Jack from its resemblance in color to its Antelope. It is rather larger than the other kinds

with apparently shorter hind legs, almost white on the hind quarters. Flesh dark and tough One I killed yesterday weighed eight pounds. A few miles before reaching Tucson a low, stinking shrub covered all the ground, and continued to Tucson. In it birds were very scarce. We have been coming down hill nearly all the way from Tombstone, and as the altitude decreases the heat increases, so that here the Magnif. Ceotilus & are in full leaf. Of course with the change of climate and vegetation

the species of birds have changed also greatly. [illegible] 500 feet. Tucson is situated at the sink of the Santa Cruz River, which heads near the Mexican line and runs toward the Gila but all trace of a channel even is lost fifty miles before reaching that stream. The town was settled sometime about 1750 and was built in the usual Mexican style, of adobes. Since the advent of the Railroad some brick and frame buildings have been built, but even yet the majority of the inhabitants are Mexicans. Its principal trade is with Mexico. There are several wholesale firms carrying heavy stocks. Most of the merchants are Jews.

There are a number of small ranches (Muyieans) both above and below town whenever there is sufficient water for irrigating. Interspersed among them are patches of Marguit Timber which here is of the largest growth with which I am acquainted forming quite a forest though it would look insignificant enough in an eastern mans eye. The Santa Cruz is here even smaller than the San Pedros at Cantinim and one can jump across that almost anywhere. The soil of the river "bottom" is excellent while of the balance of the country it is almost bare arid. The many growth of Marguit is only in the good soil West of Town is a range of volcanic hills on which grow the Giant Cactus

19 April 81 Tucson Ariz. 5914 227 Dysanga war. cupluri. 8/1X12.7 ♀ I. brown, Bill pale from brown. Legs pale brown. First one seen this season. Saw more last year. Took several on the Rio Grande from Albuquerque to Mescalilla in May 75. also several on the Jails in N.M. in May and June 76. Song weaker than the P. subpicta but very similar Insects. Skin very tender. 5915 228 Helminthophaga lucia? 4.3X6.7 ♀ Would have commenced laying before long. This species is really abundant here this morning. Note a sharp Tach and Ta. with ant- ant. 5916 229 Ditto to G. Phommes 4.4X6.8 ♀ 5917 230 Ditto 4.3X6.7 ♀ 5918 231 Ditto These two males 4.7X7. ♀ were chasing the ♀ 5919 232 Ditto and I got all 4.3X6.5 ♀ close at one shot

19 April 81 Tucson Ariz 5920 233 Bucaear carpalis? 5.7X7.9 ♀ 5921 234 Ditto 5.9X8. ♀ Brown. Bill dark above, light spale brown below. Legs pale brown Found in bunches of sacaton grass in Maguities. Flaw from the grass to low brush. I suppose them to be carpalis but as I have no description of carpalis I may be incorrect in assigning that name Saccets and seeds. Shot at short range, and the tail of 234 is nearly torn off. Notice the short claws on The hind toes of 233. 5922 235 Vires fireillius 5.1X7.8 ♀ 5923 236 Vires [illegible] Cottini 5.6x8.7 ♀ 5924 237 Empidonax [illegible] hammondi 5.3X6.7 ♂ 5925 238 Picus scalaris 7.1X13.2 ♂ Seen fly from nest and shot 5926 2 eggs broken (94%) 5927 239 Lophortyx gambeli 11.8X14.9 ♀ 10.5x14.1 ♂

20 April 81 Tucson Mig. Hunt out to the hills this morning to see what birds were there. First saw and killed a Gastrothylpis mazilliways in brush in an arroyo. Then a little further in a Chardellus texensis flew up. I followed it some time but could not get within range. The first brush from the edge of the river bottom was the standing erectile brush but presently I came to Pala with its green silky made. (a shrub with bright green bark and now bare of leaves which are retained only a portion of the summer and are then exceedingly scanty). A little further on the Giant Cactus come in and were more or less thickly scattered over the hillsides. They are not very thrifty in the volcanic soil, feew ranging over twenty feet in high. Heard a Woodpecker in a hole in a Giant Cactus and on striking

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20 April 8 Jackson Ariz squamate and finally saw one but failed to get a shot. Saw a few Curve-billed Thrushes in the thick brush in the arroyas. Found many Ocotillas in bloom and expected to find Humming birds about them but saw none. Saw several Colaptes chrysoides but they are very shy. Saw and killed a Pyrrhulixi sinuata among the Ocotillas on a hillside. Heard a number of Campylorhynchus bunneicapillus. Saw many Pospiza hillinata, also a few Anisiparus flav and Helminthothaga luciae which seem to be so abundant as to have to take to the hills for room. Heard a Polioptila or two. Three with a Pic & otherdous propalidis scalaris. I believe include all the species I noted away from this lot. Had quite a rain last night.

20 April 8/ Ericson Ariz. 5928 241 Grottyptis macgillivrayi 5.1X7.1 2 I. dk. brown. Bill dark above, light below Legs pale flush color. First one seen this season. One other sun. Not common here or in southern N. Mex. Common in the mountains of southern Cota. Insects 5929 242 Cyrbulonia sinnata 8.6X11.3 8 I. dk. brown. Bill yellowish horn, Legs pale brown. First one seen this season, Mch 80. I saw several in brush fences and among mesquit below Ericson, two or three miles birds, grasshoppers, insects. 5930 273 Bolaptus chrysoicola 11.6X18.7 2 I. dk. brown. Bill black Legs greenish. Shot at the mouth of its nest. It flew off and fell on the ground. Laying: I have never seen this species alight on anything but a limb (action)

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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

20 April 81 Tucson Ariz. Falcon like, Cry." Cru," wing Tone and sounding at a distance like that of a Peacock. Have heard astir! today. 5932 245 Amphilampus flaviceps 43X6.9 ♀ Caught on wrist. 9th. one egg broke 5933 246 Harpophylycus var. palmar? 12.2x3.0 ♂ Somehow this bird does not look to me like var. palmar, the colors are too much faded and blended in appearance. As I have no specimen convenient for comparison I only speak from memory of their appearance. Was not as shy as I have usually found var palmar. Bill black. Legs brown. 5934 247 Centurus amphygialis 10.1x16.7 ♂ 5935 248 Amphilampus flaviceps 4.4x6.8 ♀ 5936 249 Solifitila caerula 4.8x6.0 This seems to be the only Colibri here now

21 April 8! Tucson Ariz. 5937 250 Asturina plagiata 17.7X34.9 ♀ Was looking for the nest of 244 and found one with this bird sitting on a limb beside it. I shot it and climb the tree (a Mesquith) feeling arms I had a set of eggs, but on reaching the nest I found it to be empty. It was an old one and had not been repaired. It undoubtedly belongs to this female. She evidently would not have laid for some weeks. Searched further for another nest but found none. Saw another bird of this species near where I shot 244 yesterday. It likely is its mate. Stomach contained hair and fur of mice? 5938 251 Haemorhynchus cristalis 128X126 ♂ Light gray almost white Mesquit. 5939 252 Icterus cucullatus 8.2X7.1 ♂ 5940 253 Helminthothrix lucida 4.3X6.9 ♂

21 April 81 Sweson Ariz To W. W. Huetkhan 5941 2.54 Helminthophaga lucida 4.3 X 6.9 ↑ 5942 2.55 Ditto 4.5 X 7.1 ↑ 5943 2.56 Ditto to C. A. Cory 7.2 X 6.0 ♀ Killed these three at one shot. This species is the most abundant of any, here in the meagrit. Shud Their leap on all sides all day long. They seldom sing. Keep on the move from tree to tree, sometimes going into the low brush. Do not seem to be mated yet. 5944 2.57 Mygidoetes fuscillatus 4.0 X 7. 8 5945 2.58 Melospiza var. pallar 6.3 X 8.2 9 2. dth. brown. Bill darks above, light below. Legs light brown. Willing. 9.1/3. Home and insects Willows and rushes of a marsh. Other seen.

22 April 81 Sucson Ariz. 5946 Pyrammus verticalis 8.6X/3.7 ♀ 5947 To F. Stephen 5948 Helminthothrips luciar 4.3X6.6 ♀ 261 Ditto to Nat. Mus. 4.2X6.7 ♀ 5949 262 Vino pusillus 6.X7.1 ♂ 5950 Papocephalus var. mexicanus 5.6X/9.1 ♂ 5951 Collurio var. xenobitrix 9.X2.7 ♀ J.Mk. brown. Bill black. Legs black with pale edgings to the acutatta Ve Commonly distributed Common. Succulents. Sitting. 5952 265 Cypoecephalus var. mexicanus 5.7X/10. ♂ Went to town in the forenoon.

23 April 81 Treason Went up the river a few miles this morning. Found several foxes on which were Coots, a medium size Egret with three half grown young (I would have shot but it could not be any way of getting it) several Ruddy and Spoon-billed Ducks; and two or three pairs of Cinnamon Teal. one White Heron. A. egretta. one Night Heron (a distance), one Great Blue Heron, and one small Rail, which I think was P. jamaicensis. I once mounted one of this species for the San Diego Lyceum. Killed near San Diego Cal., and I have seen two other when I had no gun with me. The flight of this one was very slow and the bird was small and dark. This flew up over it bank on which I was walking with my gun on my shoulder.

23 April 81 Tucson Ariz. and a Duck in the other hand, by the time I was ready it was around a point near by. I waited around some time trying to find it but failed to see it again, It could not have gone far. Saw several Belted Kingfishers also Killdeer, and Sandpipers, and an Osprey flew past. 5953 266 Trochilus atypoides? ?/IX/1.6 9ad Dark brown, Bill and feet black. Sound of ghy. I hardly know what to call this, It seems to come nearest to Anna but it is too light colour beneath and the bill is larger than that of any X species I have with one, which include, S. platypterus anna, costae, henshawi, and T. atypoides. Saw no males this morning but found another nest with an egg which I left for a day or two.

28 April 87 Tucson Ariz 5954 267 Polioptila plumbea 4.6X5.8 ♂ J. dk. brown. Bill and legs black, Merguit. First sem lure. 3955 268 [illegible] var. coofuri 8.2X12.7 ♂ 5-956 269 Cardinalis var. igneus 9.7X12.5 ♂ J. all. brown. Bill reddish, legs brown. Frequent low brush usually near streams. Scarcely common. Leds near stream. 5957 270 Melospiza var. fallax 6.1X7.9 ♀ 5958 271 Antiochus ludovicianus 6.8X10.6 ♀ J. brown. Bill dark brown, rales below at base. Legs brown. Several seen where in march at the stream. 5959 272 Polioptila plumbea 4.5X5.5 ♀ Very active. Appears to have just finished laying her set. It is little curious that this pair (both were shot near camp) should be breeding here and I not see them before for I have shot Polioptila on eight, too far.

25 April '81 Tucson Ariz 5960 279 Cyanospiza amona 5.7 X 8.6 ♀ 5961 274 Ditto 5.2 X 8.2 ♀ Jolk. brown. Bill brownish above brownish yellows below especially ♀ Legs dark brown, Matas. First seen. Marginit. Seeds. 5962 275 Vireo Ameillis 5.7 X 7. ♀ 5963 276 Ditto 4.9 X 6.9 ♀ 5964 277 Meloottinus am. obscurus 7.3 X 12.4 ♂ Jolk. brown. Bill and legs black, Not very common. 5965 278 Hypothymus crucialis 12.1 X 12.5 ♂ Parent of gi. 5966 279 Helminthophaga luciae 4.3 X 6.7 ♀ Near Couying. 5967 280 Ditto 4.7 X 7. ♀ 5968 281 Pyrocephalus varius 6.1 X 10.2 ♀ Seen fly from ditch and shot, 9th. Ridification complete. 5969 282 Vireo Ameillis 5.7 X 7.1 ♂

25 April 81 Tucson Ariz 5970 283 Indrius var namns 6.1X10/ 9 2 Dick, brown, Bill dark brown yellowish at face below. Legs pale brownish. Worms and insects. This is the first I have seen in Arizona. I found it common in San Diego Co but Badly shot about the head, 5-471 284 Phaenopella nitens 7.9X11.3 8 Red Bill and legs black. Not common here. I had expected to find them abundant. Heard a weak attempt at a song. They have a sweet though not loud song. They are very fond of Mistletoe berries and in their season P. nitens can scarcely be found elsewhere than in their vicinity. These berries are very scarce in N.M. and on the Pacific Coast.

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26 April 81 Triceon Ariz. 5975- 288. Micrathene whitneyi 5.8X15.2 I, bright yellow. Bill pale gray. Legs pale brown, sides yellow. Sent down several Gnat Bacteria leaving Woodpecker holes in them trying to find out if the Woodpeckers had commenced laying. Opening one hole I found this Owl, dead; killed by the shock of the fall. I afterward fell others hoping to have the same luck but from now more. Found fragments of eggs of the Sparrow Hawk in one hole, all the others contained nothing. Would have commenced laying in about two weeks; would have laid a large set. Stomach contained insects, mostly flies. 5976 289 Olalathorns costar 3.7X3.6 2 Dark brown. Bill & legs black.

26 April 81 Tucson Ariz 5977 290 Helminthophaga celata 5X7.3 9 5978 291 Ditto 49X7.1 9 Back brown. Bill blackish lighter at base below. Legs dark brown. Have not found this species common anywhere. Moved out to the hills this morning. Grass is very scarse for the horses that will have to go back to the river tomorrow. Heard some Thrushes but could get none. Several White-winged Doves flew past during the day. Their flight is like that of the Band-tailed Pigeon but slower.

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

27 april 8 into Sherd was "Churpi". For several times I heard a "Tu-tu-m--n". This morning I commenced cutting down Cactus again and after falling a dozen or so I found this one. Found my eggs of any kind. This female was rather nearer laying them the first. Saved this one sternum. After skinning this I went out and cut some Cactus and again succeeded in getting one. On the way to camp I shot an Oeturns cunculatus, as the horses were suffering for want of food and water, I did not stop to skin them last two but moved camp to the river. 5983 296 Micrathene whitneyi 5.9x15.2 ♀ Near laying. I say; where are the males?

27 April 1881 Tancan Aiz. 297 Dolines accoullates 6.3x11. Shoiled by the heat. Did not try to skin it until after eating a late dinner. 5-984 297 Springa ron, cuchuri 7.9x22.8 She is getting common. We are camped a little higher up the river, about five miles south of Tancan.

28 April 81 Incarn Mizz 5985- 298 Ondroica torquenda 5.1x7.7 2 Bill, brown. Bill and legs black, soles yellow. First of the species I have seen in Ariz. Merguit. Insects. 5986 299 Helminthophaga lucia 4.4 x 6.7 3 Still common, but not nearly as abundant as they were a week ago 5987 300 Ochmacelidia passerina 5.5x10.5 2 5988 301 Ditto 6.6x10.5 2jus J of 300 pink, J of 301 pinkish brown. Bill of 300 red, blackish tipped, of 301 basal half red, balance brownish black. Claws blackish. Tut and legs pale flesh color. Birds and insects. First one I ever saw. Heard Stuus, apparently arboricole. Note low, mournful, sounding from much greater than the real distance.

28 April 81 Tucson Ariz 5989 302 Asturina [illegible] 16.3x32.1 8 5990 303 Heluchornus anna? 3.9x4.6 9 I have still great doubts of this species being L. anna Parent of gsh. Took from other mists of this species this afternoon. Most of them came within a yard of me and I got a good view of each. I could see no difference in plumage or appearance. Have seen no males.

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30 april 81 Greeen Ariz As I was coming home from Town This morning a peculiar Hawk flew from a tree near the road and was almost im- mediately lost to sight. It was about the size of the Red tailed Hawk. Had a tail as white as that of an old Bald Eagle; also a white patch on the wing, which appeared to me as if the secondaries were all white. The rest of the plumage appeared to be dull brown. I only saw it while it was flying perhaps 20 yards and might easily have been mistaken. 5996 304. Harpophynchus crissalis 11.7W2.7B 5997 310 Ceteria longisquama 7.5X9.4 B I. fill & legs black. Have been in but four or five days. Now come

30 April 81. Tucson Ariz 5494 311 Butor gonzocens 18.7 X 495 8 Brown, Bill black, becoming grunish at base both above and below. Cere, legs and feet yellow, Claws black. I was standing on a dam in the river at the head of an irrigating ditch, among Willows, waiting for something to turn up, when below me in the stream a Kutton as I supposed at the time, attempted to catch some minnows in a shall. place, fluttering over the water trying to catch the little fish with its feet, as I saw plainly. It apparently failed and lit on the dam beyond and below me. I could not see it very distinctly, and still thought it a Kutton. It appeared jet black and white bill and smaller than the

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1 May 81 Tucson Ariz. 6000 313 See #308. Ornithion [illegible] 4.6 x 7.2 8 This Flycatcher was sitting on the top of the tallest tree near, at sunrise this morning, singing his comical little song, "goo-p- goo- poo-poo-pedledie", the first half uttered very deliberately the rest not so rapidly. The call is "Peer-pir pir pir" commencing with a high shrill note and lowering one note each time. I followed it some time yesterday only to miss it at last. Its habits are much like other small Flycatchers, but does not jerk the tail much. It is slung and so far rare. I have never before seen it. 6001 314 Pipilo aberti 8.9 x 10.9 ♀ Light brown. Bill brownish from above, bluish from below.

1 May 1881, Inezon Ariz. Legs brown. Insects. Would have commenced laying in about two weeks. Wren not a sharp clink Song heard yesterday for the first time. It is difficult to describe. It is rapid and about the middle raises to a higher key and subsides to nearly the form, occupying perhaps two seconds of time. I have found this species common along the Colorado and Gila rivers, and saw one pair on the San Pedro, and this pair here. They appear to be restricted to the vicinity of streams near in thick brush, though they are present less more than annual in this genus. I have seen them hunting insects in the bark of trees in a manner similar to

Nouns. They are rather shy. The nests are rather bulky, sometimes built in bushes near the ground and again in trees. I found one in a bunch of mistletoe twenty feet from the ground. P. frencus is common here.

2 May 81 Incion Ariz 6002 315 Thryothorus var. laverghati 5.3X6.8 ♀ Splitting. castini: 6003 316 Vireo [illegible] 5.3X8.0 ♀ 6004 317 Setornis crescentatus 8.3X10.8 ♂

3 May 5/ Tucson Ariz. 6005 318 Deteria valongicandra 7.7x9.6 8 6006 319 Malapaza var. fallax 6.3x8.4 8 6007 320 Tyrannus paciferano 8.7x15.6 9 6008 321 Ceryli aleyon 13.6x23.4 9 I.dk. brown Bill black, halw ut have below, Legs dark, Several frequent this stream. Firth 6009 322 Boopiza billinata 5.4x8.1 8 Hitting. The first seen here in the Timber, but the. above is common in the brush about half a mile east. This one must have come for water as she stood at the acequia when shot. 6010 323 Asturina filagiatu 16.3x33.4 8 Stomach was full of small, squirrels and lizards, This species is quite common in this body of Mesquite timber

4 May 8 Tucson Ariz 6011 324 Corvus cryptolens 19.9 X 40.7 ♀ J. Mr. Brown, Bill & [illegible] A small proportion of the Ravens here are of this species. They can usually be distinguished among a flock by the smaller size, and [illegible] different voice, which at times sounds somewhat like the quacking of a Duck. This one came flying over camp this morning and it received a heavy load of No 9 shot at short range. The bill is badly broken and the skin is punched as full holes as a cullender. I shun it only because being doubtful of getting another. Wokorean laying 6012 325 Melodellia luscinia 11 X 17.9 ♀ 6013 326 Helminthophaga luciae 4.3 X 7 ♂ 6014 327 Anisops flaviceps 4.3 X 6.5 ♂

4 May 81 Tucson Ariz. 6015- 32 & Tyrannus verticalis '86X197' ♀ Brown. Bill & legs black. This seems to come nearest T. verticalis but this and some I have referred to T. prociferans do not fully answer the descriptions in the Key and seem to me to intergrade between these two forms. Is it possible they are only varieties instead of species? and these specimens intermediate. 6016 32 & Ceiinus morelroacensis 6.2X9.8' ♂ Brown. Bill black above brown below. Legs light brown. Borus says "North Am. common everywhere." This is the first of This species I have seen west of the Missouri R. Was in Willows along stream. Wagged its tail like a Flicker. corrects. Key [illegible]

6017 330 Aeturina alagiatu 165x33x 8pm claws J. brown. Bill bluish black. Cure, rictus, legs & feet yellow.

5. May 81 Ineson 6018 331 Melopelia leucosterna 12.IX.1946 ♂ I see these Doves in the Merguit occasionally. They feed on the Merguit "beans". 6019 332 Selasphorus anna? 4.X 4.6 ♀ Parent of 97½ - I cannot think why I see no males, I doubt this being anna and would like to obtain a male to settle the question in my mind. 6020 333 Emp. trailli fusillatus 6.2X8.8 ♂ I, dk brown, Bill black above, mostly below, Legs black. Notes "White air" or "whit-avi", I cannot now determine the species. Willows growing in the pond covered by a dam in the stream. 6021 334 Luscinia discors 15.IX.1946 ♂ I, dk brown, Bill black, Legs dull yellowish. Mating was without. They are the first I have seen for years 6022 335 Cettia var. longicauda 7.3X9.7 ♂

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7 Mary 81. Tucson Ariz. 6026 339 Pyrranga v. ciepheri 7.9X2.2 ♀ 6027 A. Vt. Mus. 340 Helminthothaga lucia 4.4X7. ♂ 6028 34 Pyrocephalus var. mexicanus 6.X/0.3 ♂ 6029 342 Octins cincallatus. 8.2X10.3 ♀ 6030 373 Lendrion anduboni 5.8X9.5 ♂ Odk. brown, Bill & legs black. Not common. This plumage is seldom seen this far north. Insects. 6031 344 Pyrocephalus var mexicanus X/0.2 ♂ 6032 345 Ditto 5.8X9.8 ♂ 6033 346 Vires plumbeus 5.8X9. ♂ Tiny fat. Would not have laid for a long time. 6034 347 Buto virginianus var? 20.8X5.3.2 ♀ I. yellow, Bill & claws black; Parent of 1/2 Nest contained added one egg and one young bird Two or three days old which I put in alcohol. Stomach contained beetles, portions of crayfish

9 May 81 Tucson Ariz. 6035- 348 Polyborus war. andubonii 21.9X48.9 I brown, Bill pale green at base becoming nearly white at tip. Bar portions of the head dull purplish red to under the eye behind which it is whitish. Legs white with a yellowish Tinge. This is the "Hawk" of which I made a note of having seen. It was in company with Turkey Vultures & Ravens at a slaughter house. Another was said to accompany it. It seems to be a carrion fuder, and has much the same habits as the Vultures as near as I can learn. It was wilder than the Vultures as it flew up first when I tried to approach them. Note. These conclusions in regard age (as well as sex) are arrived at from internal characters independent of plumage.

10 May 81 30 Mls South of Tucson Ariz. Vol. C. G. Cory. Micrarium whitneyi 5.7 X 15.1 F. Obtained by falling in giant Cactus 30 ft. high. She con- tained an egg having just sufficient shell to break, and two others that would have been laid soon. May have laid others already but not incubating. The egg is so badly fractured that meas- urements can only be approx- imate, but they are about 5.8 X 6.02. Fragments saved. Are on our way to the Santa Rita Mountains.

11, May 81 Santa Rita Mts. 6037 350 Calliphila agranata 10.3X14.7 ♂ 6038 351 Ditto 10.7X15.3 ♂ 6039 352 Ditto to G. Plummer. 10.4X14.7 ♂ Shot this morning along the road. 6040 353 Virio butttoni 5.8X8.1 ♂ All Virios I have marked butttoni have a dark spot on the upper eyelid. It is difficult to show it in mak with the claim 6041 354 Virio solitarinus Cassini 5.7X8.8 ♂ I brown.Bell above and tip below blackish, back below lightish blue Legs leaden. We are forty miles south of Tucson on the N.W. side of the Santa Rita 6042 355 Astrostonus var. arizonae 9.9X18.7 ♂ Was in Oaks about 200 yards from the stream. Strict limits by the bulk of the full moon, heard one thr

12 May 81 Santa Rita Mts 6043 Cires latirostris 356 Alp, unknown to me, a 4.1X5.05 8 little brown. Point of bill below and from third above black, rest of upper mandible reddish brown, below purplish red. Feet black. Olyeamous in colour. Three shots aim, I might have shot one but I thought to get two at one shot when they all suddenly darted off. Note flat. Different from other Hammers. Heard another Species of Hammer. 6044 357 Dendroica nigrescens 5.x7.5 9 6045 358 Picus stricklandi 7.7X14.2 9 I have not before seen this smoky brown Tinge to the plumage. 6046 359 Pyrranga leucophrys 7.8x12.1 9 Bill Black above, bluish brown below. Legs leaden, & brown. Will not halt but fly a long time. Only one seen yet. Range from lower fries through Arroyos to foothills.

12 May 81 Santa Rita Mts. To J. Stephens 6047 360 Myiarchus lawrencei 7.2X0.5 B I. Mt. brown. Bill I legs black, Actions like those of M. cinnamomus Notes more like some of the smaller Flycatchers. Still often seen. Were along the streams perching on dead branches and hunting after insects. Probably, 6048 361 Ditto 7.2X0.3 B 6049 362 Vireo var. aviumcini 5.4X8.5 B I black. Bill black above, bluish below. Legs dark plumbers. Do not seem to be common. Rarely found at this season in all will timbured mountains 6050 363 Empidonax hammondii 5.3X8.3 P ju 6051 364 Myiarchus lawrencei 7.3X0.3 B One note is a single mournful "Peet" "Peeie",

13 May 81 Santa Rita Mts. 6052 Circe latirostris To F. Stephens. Aee 366 a: 396x506 9 Bill above & tip below black, Palmer below reddish. Not near leaping. 6053 366 Blackburns platycepsus 4 x 5-05 8 2 Ms. brown. Bill & feet black, scales Lighter. 6054 367 Laniapha melanoccephala 8.1/12.9 8 Idk. brown. Bill above brownish Black, below horn color becoming bluish towards tomia & tips. Legs light plumbeus. Mate was with a brown cloak. 6055 368 Pyrocephalus mar. myivus 5 x 10 8 6056 369 Cototinus borealis 7.3 X 240 9 Idk. brown. Bill above black, below dusky lighter in the middle, Legs black. Not. 6057 Common, 370 Myiadectes townsendi 8.1 x 3.1 9

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14 May 81 Santa Rita Mts 6063 376 Aphelocoma var. arizmendi 19.2X2.02 ♂ Abundant. Not as shy as I have found them elsewhere, 6064 377 Pyrranga leucotica 8.2X2.7 ♂ 6065 378 Empidonax occidentalis 5.3X6.1 ♀ 6066 379 Picea stridulandi 8.6X4.7 ♂ 6067 380 Pyrranga leucotica 8.1X2.7 ♀ Would have laid in ten days or so. 6068 381 Sayornis nigricans 6.7X0.4 ♀ Bk. brown, Bill & legs black. Found more or less wherever there are permanent streams, but usually not on mountains very high. Nest similar to S. fuscus built under bridges or sometimes in abandoned buildings of not too far from their feeding grounds along streams. 6069 382 Certhia latrostris 4.0X5.02 ♂ Destroyed; see May 19.

14 May '81 Santa Rita Mts Ariz. 6070 383 Soteros paricomm 8.6 X 13 8 Rather common here in Oaks of foothills. Also saw them in cactus thickets on the plain as we came up, so they are not as exclusively a mountain species as I had supposed. 6071 384 Lophophanes wollroberi 5.1 X 8.3 8 15 May 81 6072 385 Sclerophyllum platyceium 10.7 X 4.9 6073 386 Pyrantha lubaticea 8.2 X 4.2 8

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16 May 87 Santa Rita Mts. 6078 391 Goniafusa melanopisphus 8.7x12.8 9 Common high in the Mts. Not near laying. 6079 392 Contopus pertinax 7.7x12.5 9 Jth brown, Bill above black, below yellow, dusky toward tip. Keeps Halt. Went to the summit of this range, to see if there were any species there that were not here, but found little difference. The country on the other side looks very bare. Killed a Dur. Saw a suspicious moccasin track. Found a nest of four Arizona jay eggs, near hatching; that some were clipped. 6080 393 Chordeiles tityensis 8.8x22 18 6081 394 Ditto 8.1x20 9 Jth brown, Bill brownish black, Tub hole brown. A number came past at twilight. I would have laid down.

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17 May 81 Santa Rita Mr. Ariz 6087 410 Mijianthus laurencii 7/X/02 8 6088 401 Ditto 7.X/0. 9 6089 402 Ditto X.C.B.Cory 7/X/0. 9 6090 703 Ditto. 7X98 9 The last is laying. I found a canon where the species was quite plenty toda Killed another Deer this morning and saw a very large Deer this afternoon while looking for my horses. It made off with a 4/41 Cal. ball sink by any Auxiliary Rig As the brush was thick I did not follow it.

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19 May. 81 Ants. Santa Rita Mts. This morning I find that some animal, probably a Wood Rat, has destroyed some skins during the night. I had left the box open to facilitate drying. The head of Bovotopus festivus No 392 is partly broken off, but is repairable. The head of two Hummingbirds 382 is gone. No. 397 is totally destroyed, so is 389. #378 is missing. 6096 409 Antrostomus nuttalli 8.IX.76 D Killed last night. The first two or three nights we were here I heard occasionally an A. var. arizonis, but since then I have not heard it. The whistle of A. nuttalli some distance like "Boo-woo" but close at hand more like "Pul-dud" She is abundant here.

19 May 81 Santa Rita 1085 6097 410 Helminthophaga luciae 9.1X6.9 8 The only one of this species I have seen here, was along the stream below the mouth of the canyon where there are a few Megnits interspersed among the Oaks. I watched it some time. It lingered among the Megnits but if it happened to fly into an Oak it went no very soon, seeming to much prefer to feed in the Megnits. 6098 41.1 Cicis latirostris I forgot to measure this bird, Please send it for me. 6099 412 Megarchus lawrencii 7.3X10.5 8 Very windy, so much so that it is difficult to do anything.

20. May 81 Santa Rita Mts. 6100 413 Penaceia var. bonardi 6.3X7.8 ♀ 6101 414 Polioptila caerula 4.9X6.3 ♂ 6102 415 Tyrannus vociferans 8.9X5.3 ♀ 6103 416 Pipilo fusens 8.8X11.5 ♂ 6104 417 Molothrus var. obscuro 7.1X12.1 ♂ 6105 418 Tyrannus verticalis 8.6X14.8 ♀ 6106 419 Poochira billinata 5.5X8.1 ♀ Sitting. [illegible]

2! May 81 Canta Rita Mt 6107 420 Isoclellus alexandri 3.7 X 4.95 8 Started in the morning for the "rivers" on our way back To Tucson. 6108 421 Eremophila par. chrysolium 4.6 X 9.2 8jw Bill & legs very pale bluish. Caught on the prairies. Could fly but a few yards at a time, Parents seen. 6109 422 Calliphlu egramata 10.3 X 15.2 8 6110 423 Turpophyebus pendicis 10.4 X 14.2 8 I yellow. Bill blackish, males at base below. Legs light brown. 35 miles south of Tucson 6111 424 Calliphlu egramata 11. X 15.2 8jw A couple young men owning a kind of cattle run tell me that there are four kinds of mail here. One they call the "Valley" mail. They formerly were for [illegible] real states mail

22 May 81 25 Miles south of Tucson. To Geo. M. Lawrence. 6112 425 Harporthynchus bendirii 10.3X3.1 ♂ I had found a nest containing three young nearly large enough to fly, in a cholla, near where we had camped overnight, and was looking at them when I saw this bird coming with a worm to feed them, and shot it. 6113 426 Ditto 6.1X9.5 9jm. One of the three mentioned above, Another was put into alcohol. Light gray. Bill dk brown above, below, and legs, pale bluish. 6114 427 Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus Taken from nest. 6.2X9.3 8jm. Shagel. Bill blackish, legs pale light brown. Got to old camp on the river above Tucson.

23 May 81 Tucson Ariz. 6115 428 Pipilo aberti 8.9X11.4 8 6116 429 Pyrocephalus var. mexicanus 6.2X9.7 9 Parents of tiny Al laid out 6117 430 Sturnus oenanthatus 8.2X11. 8 To G. Plummers. 6118 431 Melospizella lanceolata: 12.1X19+ 8 Have been looking for nests part of the day. Found quite a number, but most have but one and two eggs. None was particularly rare.

25 May 81 Ineson Ariz 6119 432 Pineetia carphalis 5.8X7.8 P Parent of 6/23, Eggs white some hatching that they were broken. I cant just make out the spec the combination of chestnut crown and lesser wing courts, and some wings and tail are new to me. I Mr. brown, Bill dark brown above, light brown below. Legs fuli yellowish, feet darker. Insects. 6120 433 Helminthophaga luciae 4.5X6.5 P Parent of 6/23 Set complete. 6121 434 Harporhynchus crissalis 11.2X2.3 O 6122 435 Ditto % Nat. Mrs. 11.3X2.2 Pjmv This seasons hatching. 6123 436 Ditto 11.8X12.7 P This is all of her family that I saw.

26 May 8 Sucson Ariz 6124 Yo A. W. Henshaw. 437 Harporthynchus erisalis 11.3x12.7 8jmv- 6125 438 Progne purpura 7.6x5.7 8 J. sh. brown, Bill black, Legs Hachish Common. 6126 439 Arripharus flaviceps 3.1x5.7 9jmv Taken from nest. 6127 440 Picus scalaris 7.x2.6 8jmv 6128 441 D. itto 7.2x2.7 9jmv Same brood. Helminthothaga luciae The nest was certainly that of Arripharus flaviceps, but it had been used on a previous season and undoubtedly the H. luciae used it instead of building a new one in a crevice or some similar place; I have found many old nests of H. luciae. Some more in knot holes, woodpecker holes, behind loosened bark, in crevices.

6129 442 6130 443 Empidomus pusillus 5.9X8.7 S. Brown. Bill Black above, pale dusky yellow below. Legs black.

28 May 81 Tucson Ariz. 6131 444 Ptililo aberti - 8.9X11.1 Parent of iv/3. Set complete 6132 445 Gouraphus aurilila 7.2X12 Dull brown. Bill black above flush below. Legs black. Third one seen this season. Late migrants. Common on the Gila in 1876. Not rare in Cala. 6133 446. Oreitriton inebberbe #3089-3/3. Parent of the nest. Harmon cared 6134 447 Ditto Oreitriton inebberbe 8.7X6.2 I heard the call note of the and looked her up. When she saw me she came around and acted as if she had a nest near. Perhaps for it a little and then shot her while picking her up I heard the a single call of the same kind and soon shot the jow, which solved the 6135 448 Charonophelia passerina 6.6X10.5

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30. May 8 Camp Lowell, Ariz. 6139 452 Poospiza fillineata 5.6X87 B 6140 433 L. G. L. Allen Mus. Comb. Zoo. Harpychthys benderi 10.3X133 B 6141 454 Ditto To Nat. Mus. 101X27 F 6142 455 Parent of, ig/3 Set laid out Ditto Mate to 454 104X82 B Camped a couple miles above Camp Lowell. Some Cottonwoods & Willows along the stream. The Mesquit are small here. A mile or so back in the hills the Giant Cactuses appear plenty.

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and then they fly into the tree and will allow very close approach, notter them face the dog by leaving the tree. Can fly up into a tree only by taking a run and sailing up as one might say. They do not attempt any real flight but can increase their speed when running by using their wings also. All lizards, snakes, grasshoppers, katydid, 6144 457 Soturus circulatus 8.1X0.7 8 6145 458 Poliophila plumbea 7.5x5.5 9 Has bred. 6146 459 Colletes chrysoides 11.2x18.6 9 Has bred also. Shot from a Mynahit. 6147 460 Harpophrychus var. palmini 11.1x13.5 9 Sitting. The last two were shot from my seat while at work. They were evidently coming in from the hills for water

31 May 87 Campi Lowell. 6148 461 Tiris fumidus Laying 6149 462 Myiarchus sp? 9.9X14.1 ♂ 6150 463 Ditto 9.6X13.7 ♀ 6151 467 Ditto 9.5X12.5 ♀ Laying. I. Mr Brown, Bill I big black, A little before sunset I heard a Call note resembling that of M. cinerascens but differing very that I thought it worth while in- vestigating, with the result of seeing four of the above species, and obtaining three of them. They were in low Magnit trees, and easily approached. Did not notice any prentiariitis as it was late and I shot on sight. Stomachs contained portions of buttle. They appear to differ from M. erinitis, especially in greater length.

1 June 8/ Camp Lowell To N. W. Henshaw. 6/52 465 Pyrocephalus var. mexicanus 5.7X9.9 ♀ 6/53 466 Ditto 5.7X10, ♂juv This and another young bird was following the ♂ around while he fed turn. Although they seemed to be as quick and easy of flight. as he, they did not appear to know how to catch the insects. 6/54 467 Centurus arfugialis 10.2X6.6 ♂juv. Note: My juv simply means not fully mature and is applied to all young birds, from the nest-♀ to the nearly adult stage. The above bird was sitting. The Woodpeckers here seem to will take an equal share in the labor of incubating: 6/55 468 Myiarchus sp? 10.X/9.3 ♂ 6/56 469 Colaptes chrysoides 11.7X8.8 ♂juv 6/57 470 Myiarchus cinerascens 8.7X2.7 ♂ 6/58 471 Amazilia flaviceps 9.2X6.1 ♀juv #Heliotropha? [illegible]

2 June. Camp Lowell Myiarchus sp? 9.9X4.1 8 6160 473 Dated To N.W. Henshaw 10x/4/2 8 6161 474 Microthene whitneyi 5.8x4.8 ♀ Obtained by falling a large cactus that stood in advance of the Stars near the valley. She was in a hole about 20 ft from the ground and with her were three young a few days old which I have fixed in alcohol. In the same cactus were nests containing respectively two each of C. aridopygialis, and C. chrysoideis, all nearly large enough to fly, some of which I shall skim. In one of the lower arms was also a nest, quite empty, that I believe to have been made by the above species of Myiarchus. I saw another in another cactus and also birds of the same sp. among the cacti. Let's Nat. Mus.

2 June 51 Camp Lowell 6162 478 Bolaites sirypoides 10.2x17.3 8 jmv. 6163 479 Ditto 10.1X7.9 9 jmv 6164 477 Centurus undygialis 8.2x4.3 9 jmv 6165 478 ? Nat. Mus Harborhippuchus var. salmuri 11.3x13.9 8 jmv 6166 479 Micrathene whitneyi 6.x15.2 ♀ Was sitting on four eggs which were almost hatched, the fall young bird broke thru and one "pucked" loudly. I put three of them, pieces of shell I all into alcohol. 6167 480 Harborhippuchus var. salmuri 6.5x9.7 8 jmv Taken from nest. Parents seen. 6168 481 Zyrannus verticalis 8.8x5.7 ♀

3, June 17 Dunfa Lowell. 6169 482 Glaucomus forerugineum 7 X 13? 8 I. yellow, Bill greenish yellow, One yellowish green, Tocs dull Greenish yellow, Claws black, I have heard this or another from sunrise for half an hour to the same species several morning singing? in the Cottonwoods near camp, and this morning succeeded in finding it. The note was "clack "crack- cack" repeated about twice per second for several seconds, quite loud for the size of the bird. At each note it perked the tail, and the head was thrown back with the bill pointed out. A few times heard the syllables "cluck" replace the other lower, as they were not audible as far. I have heard a small Cool for several evening which is probably this species as it Different calls from that of the Whitewing Owl.

3 June '71 Camp Lowell 6170 483 Selasphorus amira? 4.05x4.65 F 6171 687 Compsognathus difficilis 5.5x8.1 B 1 P.M. A few minutes ago while I was walking past an older brush in a thicket a small bird flew from it, and I only cought a glimpse of it, and thinking it had flown from it I walked around the brush for it, when I saw a Whitneys Owl sitting on a limb with its side toward me, and one wing held up shield fashion before its face I could just see if it had kept its eyes shut. Sometimely its eyes over its wing I had overlooked it. It squeezed itself together into the small- ast possible compass so that its head was the widest part of its outline. It looked very comical. I backed off a little and circled around to get a better view.

3 June 81 Camp Lowell. To shoot from as the brush was thick. Whichever way I went the wing was interposed and when I backed away for enough to shoot I could not tell which was Owl and which was leaf, but after working a while I shot by guess and it fell, I walked up and was picking it up when I was surprised by another of the same species, which I had not seen at all before, falling near me. Of course some stray bullet had struck it, but at first I almost imagined it had been frightened to death. The bird that flew out of the brush was probably one of the same species. 6172 485 Micrathium whitneyi 5.7/14.8 ↑ 6173 486 Ditto. 5.5/14.6 ↑ 6174 This leaf is also added. 487 Harpobrychus var. rubrum 11.1/3.7 ↓

3 June 81 6175 488 Oeophis var. meccalli 8x2/3 ♀ Jaguar Bill black fale at T. Joe's pale. Parent of the nest 6176 Ditto 65X65 ♀jnr Shot by moonlight in the low Muguit. Ball notes a kind of chuck, different from any I have heard here. There were others probably the rush of the clutch of young. But after I shot the old one the others fell silent.

4 June 81 Camp Lowell 6177 490 Micrathene whitneyi 5.7X/4.6 2 6178 491 Myiarchus sp? 9.6X/4.2 8 6179 492 Ditto to F. Stephens 9.8X/4.3 8 6180 493 Ditto 9.6X/3.7 4 This species has quite variety of notes, some of them almost Thrasher-like. 6181 494 Myiarchus cinerascens 8.7X/2.7 8

June 8/1 Carny Lowell 495 Micrathene whitneyi 6X15/1 8 Shot at twilight. It was a little cloudy and they came out earlier than usual. They evidently came from the thickets of Elder and Willow. The calls, of which there are several, are different from those heard the first time I made the acquaintance of M. whitneyi, and are those mentioned under #452. I probably heard the 9 calls then, and these are those of the 8. The females seem to pass the day in the Giant cactus while the males stay in the brush. 6193 90 Dits 78X14.6 8

6 June 81 Tucson 6184 497 Empidomax pusillus 5.7 X 8.3 Parent of im. Bill, complete. 6185 498 Empidomax pusillus 5.9 X 8.5 Parent of ? Drove back to our old camp above Tucson. Our young bird about a week old. We found it difficult to find it & endure a long chase "furious" difficulty in finding from the end of every other branch of tree, & some branches are B. americanus from branch, & some backwards. It was afraid when which it was built in a Mangifera, & young bird felt

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8 June 81 Tucson 6190 503 Harpactyrnchus erissalis 11.4X2.1 ♂ 6191 504 Chordilis tigensis to J.A. Allen 5.8X2.5 ♂ 6192 505 D. It's 8.2X2.5 ♀ 6193 506 Eoethylus mogillimayi 5.5X7.6 ♂ 6194 507 Empidomax pusillus X 6.1X8.8 ♂ 6195 508 Ditto " 5.7X8.3 ♀ Saying. 6196 509 Pyrocyphalus aurumricans 5.7X9.9 ♂ 6197 510 Melochiza warfallax 6.6X8.5 ♂ 6198 511 Acanthus phoeniceus 8.1X13.2 ♀ 6199 512 Coecyzus americans 12.4X17.3 Jm J. Brown, Bill, ridge and tip about and tip below black, balance brownish yellow. Legs dark grunid brown, Bars circumcular spner much the color of the surrounding liatums. This is the first of the species I have seen in Arizona. Heard another, Shy. Magu

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10 June 87 Tucson Ariz 6202 5/5 Pyrranga var. costuri 8.1X/2.2 ♂ 6203 5/6 Helminthophaga luciae 4.9X7. ♂ 6204 5/7 Empidonax var. difficilis 5.5X8.1 ♀ 6205 5/8 Empidonax pubilllus ♂ 6.6X8.2 ♀ 6206 5/9 Piphilo aferbi 8.7X/1. ♀ Parent of the next, Would have raised a second brood this season. 6207 5/20 Ditto 7.3X/1. ♂

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June 12 Tucson 6214 527 Coccyzus americanus 123X67D Two others seen. Seem to have a habit similar to the Road Runner, of raising the tail with a jerk at the same time spreading it, and presently letting it outside to its original position.

June 17th 1881 16 miles north of Tucson 6215 528 Cetirus [illegible] ? 7.9 X 11.9 9 jin Ith brown. Bill brownish black. Legs dull blue. Started for Canon del Oro Campid for The night about. 20 miles north of Tucson Drove through a desert country, very little grass. Mesquit, Pala- verde, Chollas, Giant cactus &c abundant. Not many birds, mostly Thrushes. Watered the horses at a well at ten cents apiece.

15 June 81 25 miles north of Tucson 6216 529 Harpshynchus [illegible] 3/16x2.7 F I yellow, Bill black, Legs dull fluish or greenish, May prove to be H. bendirii but I can see no indications of spots. Magguit, Has raised a brood. 6217 530 Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus 8.2x11. 8 yrs 6218 531 Ditto 8x10.5 4 yrs I reddish brown, Bill black, fluit below, Legs fluish brown. This seems birds. Drove to Canon del Oro, only to find that we had been sent on a wild goose chase for the only "road" in the canon is a rough pack trail; and the water here is very poor and scarce, and no horse feed. Neither are birds plenty, as we shall turn back.

6 June 81 25 miles north of Freeborn C219 532 Balliphyla squamata 10.2 X 15. ↑ C220 533 Ditto 10.7 X 15.1 ↓ C221 534 H. Cory Harporhynchus var. palmeri 11.7 X 14.1 ↓ C222 535 Balliphyla squamata 10.6 X 15. ↑ Would have laid in a few days. Mate to the next C223 536 Ditto 10.3 X 18. ↓ This is the most westerly point at which I have seen this species C224 37 Harporhynchus bendirii 12.1 X 12.7 ↑ C225 38 Ditto 10. X 12.5 ↓ jw C226 39 Ditto to Nat. Mus. 9.8 X 2.7 -jw Sexual organs destroyed by dist. Lums to be a little older than 538 C227 40 Ditto 10. X 12.8 ↓ jw Drove back five miles and made a dry camp in the desert. Found the Blue Email tolerably common. #529 will probably prove to be H. [illegible]

17 June 81 15 Miles north of Tucson 6228 G. Plummer Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus 8, X/04 9jm 6229 Lophortyx gambeli 6.1X.9.8 8jm 6230 Ditto 6.7X.0.1 8jm 6231 Ditto to C. B. Cory 11.IV.49 D Parents of the two preceding. Drove to the well 15 miles north of Tucson and laid over to look for Massasa Partridges that were said to be seen near by occasionally, but could find none. While coming down a steep hill I tossed a stone into a bush below me, when two Owls as large as or larger than the Barn Owl flew up. They were much the color of the McCalls Owl. I missed with both barrels, and they went out of sight. I do not think they had ear tufts.

20 June 81 Carnh. Lovell Drove to a fine grove of willow and cottonwood above the Fort Three miles Saturday. Dig in the sand for water. Sufficient glass line for the horses. This morning I found a patch of Retusina plagiata containing three young a few days old. 6232 545 Harborymbus var. fulvum 1.7X.44 8 6233 546 H. criassalis 1.6X/2.7 9jw 6234 547 Syrocephalus var. mixicams 6.2X.02 9 Has fed. 6235 548 Retusina circulatris 7.7X.02 8jw 6236 549 Pifilo abuti Y. C. B. Cory 8.9X/11.6 8jw 6237 550 Mimnus var. longicandra 10.2X.4.1 8 I. golden brown. Bill & legs black. Evenally distributed. Common, but not as abundant as in conostoma Cali. 6238 551 Tyrannus verticalis 8.7X/5.7 8 6239 552 Myionus ? 9.2X/3.2 9 Sitting

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21 June 81 Banks Karvell 6242 Harporhynchus crissali 11.3x/2.29 mv 6243 H. var. palmuri 10.4x/3.6 δ jmv 6244 H. bendii 10.x/3.2 ♀ Bolling. This is the only place that I know of where these three species could be found in a few minutes walk. There is enough timber for H. crissali and the cactus and mesquit hills are near by, so the other two species come in for water. 6245 ? Not Mus. Cooperi 9.8x/4.3 δ 6246 Ditto 9.7x/3.4 ♀ 6247 Astrurina plagiatia 17.9x/3.7.2 ♀ 6248 Bubo virginianus var? 19.2x/4.2 δ 6249 Chordiles texensis 8.2x/2.04 ♀ Would have laid in a few days. 6250 Micrathene whitneyi 5.3x/4.8 δ Shot at twilight from two Willow overhanging comb

2.2 June 81 Earn Lowell 6251 564 Bolitha plumbea 4.5X5.8 8 6252 565 Ditto To C. B. Cory 4.6X5.8 9 6253 566 Ditto To H. M. Beuthans. 4.7X5.6 - june 5 Sexual organs destroyed by shot. This years bird. 6254 567 Ditto To Nat. Mus. 4.7X5.6 8 6255 568 Harporhynchus var. palmini 11 X/3.2 9 Parent of 1st bird, corn, 6256 569 Campyloshynchus brunneicapilla 8.3X10.9 8pm Have been one of a very early brood. It seems impossible to get an adult, as they are wary, and the country is full of young which are not as cunning yet and I can not tell which from tother at shooting 6257 570 Lotinus crinellatus 7.8X11. 8 6258 571 Carpodacus frontalis 6.2X9.4 9 Has bred. 6259 572 Chordidiles texensis 8.8X21.3 8 6260 573 Ditto To C. B. Cory 8.7 X 20.3 8

22 June 81 Camp Lowell 6261 574 Chordiles [illegible] 8.7 X 20.6 ♀ 575 Would have laid in two or three weeks 6262 575 Dittos 8.7 X 21.5 ♂ These night-hawks were shot at dusk. Species abundant. I went out to the hills in the morning. The fruit of the Giant Cactus is getting ripe, and the desert birds are feasting on it. It is about the size and shape of a fig. The inside is filled with a soft red pulp, thick with seeds. The Indians are very fond of the fruit which is sweet and pretty good eating. The fruit grows in the crowns of the body and arms, and can be knocked off the arms with a pole, but poles long enough to reach the top of the mammatus are

23 June 51 Camp Lowell. 6263 576 Oelaphthromus anna? 7.03X7.72 ♀ I call this by the above name only because I commenced this species in that way. I do not think it is a Oelaphthromus at all. It is probably a Trochilus but seems to me to be too large for T. alexandri as it must be unless the females average larger than the males, which is contrary to my experience with other species. 6264 577 Haplohypnodus var. submuri 10.7X3.9 ♂ jun- 6265 578 H. crassali 11.6X2.6 ♂ 6266 579 Pyranga var. cooperi 8.X/1.6 ♀ 6267 580 Eurocyclus californianus 23.2X20.9 ♂ jun-

24 June 81 Campo Lowell To Geo. M. Lawrence. 6264 581 Colioptera plumbea 4.4x5.8 8 6269 582 Pimacacia carthalis? 5.9x5.2 8 "Pala verdes" in the hills, no- other seen. 6270 583 To H. M. Humphrey Harporhynchus denilii 1.05x1.3, bad 6281 584 H. mar. Balmain Parent of 4/8 6272 585 Ditto 11.2X18.5 9 6273 586 Ditto 11.X/32 9 Laying. 6274 587 Campylothyndus brunneicapillus 4.2x4.6 9 6275 588 Ditto 8pm 6276 589 Vireo persillius 4.8x6.8 9 I think the Arizona persillius is different from the California persillius, but cannot now- make comparisons. Note the differ- ence in colors and wing formulas. 6277 590 Myiarachus crurascens 5.1X16.8 9 Sitting.

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27 June 81 Camp Lowell To J. Stephens Micrathena whitneyi 5.8x3.5? Parent of two nymphs. I had made a sort of ladder and had climb up to a hole in a Giant Cactus and made Trying it spin with my knife. I found these Ovls in it. There was also another young one dead in the nest. The hole was on the south side and yesterday was very hot so it probably smothered. In mother hole on the other side was a nest of Myiarchus sp? containing one egg and two young just hatched. The egg is somewhat like that of Mr. cinnamens as I remember it, excepting this has some diagonal and crosswise streaks as well as those running lengthwise of the egg.

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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

28 June 87 Camp Lowell 6299 6/2 Cnmyloshynchus brummicapillus 5.1X0.3 9 Percent of 6300 6/3 Tales sharverins 10.1X21.7 8 Dolk, brown. Bill finish, blackening at tip. Legs light yellow, Claws Black. Common. Generally dis- tributed. 6301 6/4 Haskorhynchus var. spalmuri 10.5X1.32 8 jm 6302 6/5 Poospiza billinicate 5.7X2.2 8jm 29 June 87, Packell up and drove on to Tucson on our way to Gym 2 July 87. Saw a pair of Callipepla squamata, three or four mile east of Picacho Station with S.P.R.R. and 40 miles at Tucson. doubt if they will ever be seen further west.

3 July 81 A sand storm caught us near Casa Grande last night. I see very few birds, perhaps one an hour or an average. These are mostly Carolina Doves with an occasional White-winged Dove, some Thrushes, Cactus Wrens, Snaketators (Black-headed?) and an occasional White-rumped Shrike. Even the Turkey Culture does not come this far on the desert. 4 July 81 A heavy shower gave us a thorough soaking last night. This is the commencement of the rainy season. Had a heavy pull in the sand to get 10 miles.

5 July 81 15 miles west of Maricopa 6303 416 % C. B. Cory 6304 617 Dotts Harporhynchus lecontii 10.8x12.3 8" .10.6x12.9 ad Iris reddish brown, Bill black Legs blackish. Gizzards contained a small species of Katydid and ants. No other seen. Locality near the middle of the 75 mile Desert between Maricopa Wells and Gila Bend. No chollas or other cacti in the immediate neighborhood but some Giant Cactus about a mile away the hills; A few Mesquite and much scattering low brush. No notes heard. Tail carried elevated at about 75° angle. Nearest water 20 miles. No other Thrushes seen today and exceedingly few birds of any species.

15 July 81 Gymna Ariz. Had a very uncomfortable trip down the Gila. The thermometer has been above 100° every day since we left Tucson, often reaching 115° and 117°. Roads were sandy, water scarce and bad. The Gila had water only in a few holes for the last 40 miles, and it was so alkaline that my horses got sick. Both here yesterday. Took a walk near town this morning. Found birds few in species and with two or three exceptions in numbers ales. Petrochelidon lumifrons is breeding abundantly along a bluff above town opposite Fort Gymna (Cal). Polioptila plumbea seems to be common. Melospiza lincolnii also.

15 July 81 Yuma Ariz 6305 618 Polioptila. Albinaria 4.4x5.6 8.6 I saw this bird go into a bunch of Mistletoe and waited some time for it to come out, to get a shot at it, and finally went to the tree where I saw a nest in the Mistletoe and by shaking the branch the bird came off when I backed up and shot it. On getting the nest I found it to contain an egg of this sp. and one of M. var. obscurus. Egg may 6306 619 Ditto 4.7x5.6 8j

16 July 8 Iguma Ariz 6307 620 Octanus bullochi 7.1X11.1 9 jmv Balance of brood seen 6308. 621 Polichtita plumbea 4.4X5.6 8 jmv Saw a flock of Wood Obis in a slue near the Colorado River

1 Aug 81 Riverside Cala Reached here two days ago. Had a very hot journey across the Gympy Desert. Lost a horse in the middle of the Desert and by the merest chance another team having a spare horse overtook me, so I was able to hire it to come in with. Birds were very rare until I neared the mountains on the western edge of the Desert sometimes I saw more all day. I saw no Lophortyx gambel for the first hundred miles west of Gympy but they were common from "Walters" or for forty miles in a part of the desert below sea level. The first L. californicus was seen in the San Gorgonio

Pass, a days drive from where the first L. gambili were seen. Saw a number of Polioptila that were probably P. plumbea in the same locality where the L. gambili were seen, but as we drove nights and tried to sleep days, with the thermometer running 115° to 120° in the shade (if shade could be found), I found it impossible to do anything not absolutely necessary, so I made no effort to collect any birds.

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