Arizona field notes, v4429
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the afternoon. Howard and Rising went over to Troubles to spend the night, intending to start after some Olive Warblers early in the morning. In the night it rained very hard. July 15. Will and I went up Ramsey Canon after a Cone's Flycatcher's nest. When we had nearly reached the divide it began to rain, and we sat on the lee side of a large Pine, for about an hour and a half, getting soaking wet. We got the set of Flycatchers but could not get the bird. We went along the divide until we reached the right-hand Canon, which we followed down. We shot an immature Grace's, and an Olive Warbler, a male Rivoli Hummingbird, an Olivaceous Flycatcher, and two Scott's Orioles. We saw a deer on the divide about 350 yard away but could not get a shot at it. The others got a male Rivoli and a Rufous Hummer, three Cone's Flycatchers, two Mexican Cerepes, a Virginia Warbler, two Lead-colored Tits, two Olivaceous Flycatchers, and a Red-faced Warbler. They found a Band-tailed Pigeon's nest with one egg. in a small pine about twelve feet from the ground; and a set of Western Robins. July 16. Will and I stayed in camp to skin birds while the others went up the canon to collect a set of Buff-breasted Flycatcher. They secured the nest with three eggs, and shot both older birds. The nest egg situated was at the end of a pine limb, about