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LIST OF SPECIES 



The birds of the Santa Rita Mountains gathered from all known sources 

 are given in the following list. The nomenclature employed is that of the 

 Third (1910) edition of the A. 0. U. Cheek-List of North American Birds, to- 

 gether with the Sixteenth (1912) and Seventeenth (1920) Supplements to the 

 A. 0. U. Check-List ; but footnote references are given to Arizona forms which 

 have been described but not yet accepted by the A. 0. U. Committee. 



Gallinago delicata. Wilson Snipe 



One was taken from the six or more noted by Taylor, February 10, 1923, 

 at Gardner's Ranch, "along the seepage below Apache Spring.'" The com- 

 pany of half a dozen birds remained fairly close together, but their actions 

 were for the most part independent of one another, one flushing, and then 

 another, there being no synchronous flocking or flying." In flushing the 

 actions were characteristic, one rising in air with the "peculiar grating call- 

 note, flying irregularly and dropping to earth at perhaps thirty to fifty yards, 

 walking immediately behind some thicket or other obstacle, and remaining 

 quiet until again approached." Though repeatedly flushed the Snipe were 

 never seen to alight except on moist, marshy ground, and their wonderfully 

 developed hiding proclivities combined with their protective coloration made 

 them hard to find. 



Oxyechus vociferus. Killdeer 



A pair of Killdeer were seen by Taylor, February 10, 1923, "on the 

 marshy ground near Apache Spring," at Gardner's Ranch. 



Callipepla squamata squamata. Scaled Quail 



Taken by Stephens in 1881 in Madera Canyon; also by Nelson, June 4 

 and 5, 1884, at Harshaw's Ranch. A few adults were seen liy Swarth and 

 Stephens in June, 1903, and a family with "young about the size of spar- 

 rows," on June 26, on the mesa below Madera Canyon. A few were seen by 

 Bailey "on the open mesa, five or six miles from any ranch or water," and 

 specimens were taken October 21 and 28, 1913. A flock was occasionally 

 seen by us in the winter of 1920-1921, near McCleary's Ranch (Nicholson's) 

 on the mesquite slope below 4,000 feet, Avhile on the Experimental U. S. Range 

 Reserve, a little lower, in parts of the "big pasture," coveys of Scaled Quail 

 were as common as those of the Gambel Quail. 



Lophortyx gambelii. Gambel Quail 



"Frequently seen and oftener heard" by Swarth, in June, 1903, below 

 Madera Canyon. A flock of about twenty was seen by Bailey in October, 

 1913, at McClearv's Ranch where thev came to drink at the well and from 



"Gardner's Ranch of Nelson's day is now abandoned, being used as a cow camp. 



