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In speaking of their hahits lie says: "They were always found near water, and 

 usually along- the streams which flowed throug'h canyons, liigli iimong' tlu^ 

 mountains. They seemed to prefer sycamores to other trees, and inviirial)l\- 

 perched on dead tw igs where they could connnand an open view. Their notes 

 were flat, and ditfered from those of other Hunnners." ' 



Mr. W. E. i). Scott subsequently extended its range northward to the Santa 

 Catalina Mountains. In his notes on the birds of Arizona he makes tlu^ followin<i' 

 remarks about this species: 



" During the spring-, summer, and early fall of 1S84 tliis was a rather com- 

 mon species in the Catalina Mountains, from an altitude of 3,500 to 5,000 feet, 

 but in the corresponding season of 1S85 the l)irds were apjiarently rare. The 

 birds arrive at this point early in April, the 5th of that montli being- my earliest 

 record, when I took two adult males. They remain tlu-oughout tlie spring and 

 summer, leaving from the middle to the last of September. 1 took an adult 

 female on June 26, 1884, that contained an unlaid egg, with shell nearly formed, 

 so that there can be little doul)t that tlie birds breed at this point. Besides, I 

 have the young birds in first jjlumage from July 1 until late in August." 



There are also a nund)er of specimens of this species in the United States 

 National Museum collection, taken by Mr. E. W. Nelson in tlie Santa Rita 

 Mountains and near Tucson, Arizona; and 1 )i-. Edgar A. Meanis took a specimen 

 in a canyon of the Guadalupe Mountains, in southwestern Ne\\' ]\Iexico, close 

 to the international boundary line, on August 31, 1893, and another on the 

 Santa Cruz River, west of the Patagonia Mountains, near the Souora line, on 

 July 4, 1893, liotli of which are now in the collection here. 



Dr. A. K. Fisher failed to find this species in the Chiricaliua ^Mountains, 

 Arizona, in the spring- of 1894, liut it undoul)tedly occurs there also. There is 

 a nest of this species. No. 17890, in the United States National Museum collec- 

 tion, taken by Prof A. D ages at Guanajuato, Mexico, and received from him in 

 July, 1879, which measiu'es 1.^ inches in outer diameter by li| inches in height. 

 The inner cup measures 1 inch in width by three-fourths of an inch in dei)th. 

 For a Hummer's nest it is composed of rather coarse materials throughout. 

 These consist of fine shreds of bark and plant fibers, mixed witli a little finer 

 veg-etable down: the outside is decorated with narrow strips of hark, fine })laiit 

 stems, bits of lichens, and a piece of white cotton thread, these materials lieir.g- 

 covered with a coating of spider webs, which hold them securely in place. 

 Tlie inner lining- consists of finer materials of a similar nature, and the entire 

 nest is rather looseh' i>ut together. This nest was saddled on a fork of a slender 

 and drooping twig. 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman mention nnother specimen, stating: "S(>nor A. 

 Herrera describes a nest of this species which he found at (Jllimah■o^d(•, in the 

 Valley of Mexico, as composed of the seeds o\' Asclepias lii/ariii, and placed in 

 a plant of an Opunthi in such a manner that a section of the plant sliade(l it from 

 sun and rain."" 



' Riilliitiii Nuttall OiiiitlioloKi<-:il Club, Vol. VII, 1882, p. 211. 



^ Bioli)gia L'eutiali Americana, Aves, Vol. II, ilay, 1892, pp. 257, 258. 



