Arizona field notes, v4429
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dees. Howard fired two shot at each, missing one, and killing the other. After cleaning it, we started down the canon back to the camp. On the way back, on a steep side hill, covered with slippery pine needles, and about three hundred yards from the bottom of its canon, I flushed an Arizona Junco off of its nest, which contained three eggs. After packing away the set, we sat down to wait for the bird, as we were not sure if it was the Arizona or Grey Headed Junco. It was very wild, not returning for fully fifteen minutes, and when it did return, it was very difficult to get a shot at it, but I finally secured it. Rising went much further than we did. After going quite a ways on the divide he descended down another canon, down that to the mouth, and up our canon to where we were camped. He saw Chestnut-backed Bluebirds, Pygmy Nuthatches, a great many Arizona Junco, and some Western Robins. We shot a number of Townsend's and Red-faced Warblers, a Scott's Oriole, two Hepatic Tanagers and two Green-tailed Towhees. May 7. In the morning Will and myself binned birds and in the afternoon we went with Howard to a Hawks nest he found in the next canon. He took a set of four eggs from the nest, and Will shot at the bird but did not get it. What kind it is I don't know. Howard took a set of Arizona Jays and found two unfinished nests of the Bridled Tit. One of these was in the same tree as the Hawks nest, not more than six or eight feet from it. The other nest, the birds will probably desert