1914] GrinneU: Mammals and Birds of the Colorado Valley 163 



of the feathers are much lighter and more extensive. In the males 

 no color peculiarities are apparent. 



There is in the Museum a skin (no. 4350) taken by J. G. Cooper 

 at Fort Mohave, January 13, 1861. It is a male, obviously immature. 

 It has a markedly thick bill and much dark rusty on the back. While 

 probably not referable to so)toricnsis, I am not able to place it satis- 

 factorily. It po.ssibly represents some northern race which winters 

 in the region. 



Sturnella neglecta Audubon 

 Western ileadowlark 



Numerous February 15 to 18 on the first bottom close to the river 

 at Needles, California. Here there had been some attempt to induce 

 the growth of a coarse pasture grass by irrigation, and the resulting 

 cleared field .scantily clothed with grass formed the chief local attrac- 

 tion for the meadowlarks. A few were seen February 22 five miles 

 below Needles on a section of mesa by the river. Three individuals 

 were seen on some grass land on the Arizona side, above the mouth 

 of Bill Williams River March 13 and 14; and a lone individual was 

 shot April 22 on the Arizona side five miles north of Laguna. Twelve 

 specimens were secured (nos. 12926-12937), all but one near Needles. 



There is in the Museum a skin (no. 4359) taken by J. G. Cooper 

 at Fort Mohave January 1, 1861 ; and another, without date, from 

 "Mineral City" (^Ehrenberg) taken by W. W. Holder. 



Icterus cucullatus nelsoni Ridgway 

 Arizona Hooded Oriole 

 Common and breeding about the site of the old Hanlon ranch on 

 the California side near Pilot Knob. Here these birds affected prim- 

 arily the large date pabns which afforded characteristic ne.sting sites. 

 One nest was noted suspended in a mistletoe clump in the cottonwood 

 above the ruins of the American Girl pump. One hooded oriole was 

 discovered far up a wash on the me.sa, sipping nectar in company with 

 hummingbirds in a profusely blossoming ironwood. Six of these orioles 

 were secured May 6 to 14, nos. 13055-13060. Elsewhere the species 

 was obsei'ved twice on the Arizona side, one seen April 26 five miles 

 north of Laguna, and one heard April 9, ten miles below Cibola; and 

 once on the California side, one heard April 11, twenty miles north 

 of Picacho. 



