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ZOOLOGY— BlUDS. 



nnnierons at an altitude of from l(),()O0 to 12,000 feet; tliose at the former 

 elevation frecjuenting the cottonwood groves, while at the latter they were 

 found in the pines only. It is tame and unsuspicious, and when forced 

 to il}', which it does iniwillingly, takes to the nearest tree, and then, as if 

 incapalde of further eft'ort, stands gazing at the "intruder with outstretched 

 neck till brought down ])y a shot. A nest found June IG contained seven 

 eggs just on tha point of hatching. The site was a peculiar one, being in 

 an open glade, where the grass had been' recently burned off. The nest 

 proper was a slight collection of dried grass, placed in a depression between 

 two tussocks ; there apparently having been no attempt at concealment. 

 The eggs are pale yellowish-white, spotted irregularly with reddish brown ; 

 length, 1.95; diameter, 1.39. 



A rather common inhabitant of the White Mountains, Arizona. Quite 

 a inuuber were shot in August, and on the 15tli Dr. Newberry saw a female 

 witli young, probably a second brood. Tliis locality is much farther to the 

 south than the bird was known to range. I once thought that it would be 

 found in the mountains well down to our southern border ; the experience of 

 the past season has not, however, borne out this surmise. I searched carefully 

 for signs of this grouse, both at Mount Graham and in the Chiricahua >rouiit- 

 ains, close to the border line, but with negative result. On inquiring from 

 the settlers and lumbermen of the mountains if they had ever seen grouse, 

 I was always answered in the negative ; and I found the belief general, as 

 expressed by Dr. Coues, that none of the gi'ouse family inhabited any 

 portion of Arizona. As noted above, the Blue Grouse, or " Fool Hen", as it 

 is not inappropriately named by the hunters, is actually a resident of the 

 White Mountains, though by no means as abundant here as in similar dis- 

 tricts in Colorado. I presume that the thirty-fourth parallel may be con- 

 sidered as marking the southern limit of the species. 



