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that indeed to find features as distinetively southern in character it will he 

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

 or quite to the extreme southern border. Siniultaneoush- witli our an-ival 

 on the Gila, and acconii^anying us to the southward, we noticed two species, 

 (,'assin's Finch {Peucmi caxsini) and the Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucuUatus), 

 w hilc the A1)ert's Finch (Pij)ilo aberii), noted in great abundance on the Gila 

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



Keaching Canij) Grant August 1, two or three days spent m collecting 

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

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

 neighboring Mount Graham, were well rewarded, 'i'he CanMUna ruhi/frons, 

 first noted near Camp Apache, was at the last named locality found in a1)und- 

 ance ; Avhile another, the Mexican Snowbird (Jioico c'nioriis), supposed to be 

 an exclusive inhabitant of iMexico, was found to l)e a common resident of 

 the i)ine woods. In addition, the Eugenes fuh/ens, a humming-bird, men- 

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

 y,500 feet, and the nest secured. 



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

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

 a Ijcautiful humming-bird (Doricha oiicnra) 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 tlu-ee additions to the number of our birds were here 

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

 and I'icus strkklandi (Strickland's Woodpecker) ; the last named of which, a 

 rare species even in Mexico, heretofore its only known habitat, w^as found to be 

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



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

 the first of September, we were able to spend gave valua1)le results in the 

 acquisition of two species hitherto almost unknown, Ilarporhyncltushendirei 

 and Feuccca carpalis. Turning northward from here, a second visit was 

 made to Mount Graliam, Se[)tcmber IS, with results fully equal to those of 

 the preceding reconnaissance. Three specimens of the ( )li\(-headed Warb- 

 ler {I'cucedraiiius oliracea), a species supposed to Ix'long only to ^Icxico, 



