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that indeed to find features as distinctively southern in character it will be 

 necessary, passing over the intervening region to the south, to reach nearly 

 or quite to the extreme southern border. Simultaneously with our arrival 

 on the Gila, and accompanying us to the southward, we noticed two species, 

 Cassin's Finch (Pcucaa ca-ssuri) and the Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucuttatus), 

 while the Abert's Finch (Pipilo aberti), noted in great abundance on the Gila 

 both at this time and later, disappeared finally as we left the valley. 



Reaching Camp Grant August 1, two or three days spent in collecting 

 along the creeks as they flow from the mountains and sink in the sand a few 

 miles out on the plain, with several days occupied in the pineries of the 

 neighboring Mount Graham, were well rewarded. The Cardettina rubrifrons, 

 first noted near Camp Apache, was at the last named locality found in abund- 

 ance ; while another, the Mexican Snowbird (Junco cinereus), supposed to be 

 an exclusive inhabitant of Mexico, was found to be a common resident of 

 the pine woods. In addition, the Eugenes fulgens, a humming-bird, men- 

 tioned above as new to the fauna, was found breeding at an elevation of 

 9,500 feet, and the nest secured. 



Camp Bowie, where the next halt was made, proved a most excellent 

 station, and, besides the capture of quite a number of little known species, 

 a beautiful humming-bird (Doriclia enicura) was here found for the first 

 time within our limits. From here our route led to the southwest, and in 

 the neighborhood of old Camp Crittenden some two weeks were profitably 

 spent, and no less than three additions to the number of our birds were here 

 made : Myiodynastes luteiventris, Circe latirostris (the Circe Humming-bird), 

 and Picus stricklandi (Strickland's Woodpecker) ; the last named of which, a 

 rare species even in Mexico, heretofore its only known habitat, was found to be 

 common, while of the two former, several specimens of each were procured. 



Our next objective point was Camp Lowell, where the few days, during 

 the first of September, we were able to spend gave valuable results in the 

 acquisition of two species hitherto almost unknown, H&rporhynchw bendirei 

 and Peiiccea carnally. Turning northward from here, a second visit was 

 made to Mount Graham, September 18, with results fully equal to those of 

 the preceding reconnaissance. Three specimens of the Olive-headed Warb- 

 ler (Peucedramus ulii-acea), a species supposed to belong only to Mexico, 



