228 Stephens on Birds of Arizona and Sonora. July 



This camp was near the divide between the Gila and Altai- 

 Rivers, and the country became more broken, barren mesas al- 

 ternating with brushy arrovas. Grass became very scarce from 

 this on. In the forenoon we passed the Mexican custom-house 

 of Sasabe, where we obtained written permission to travel in 

 Sonora one month. A few miles below Sasabe I saw a pair of 

 Ortyx, the male with a dark head and reddish beneath, the fe- 

 male ( ?) dull brown, and I thought its head was subcrested. 

 They were not very wild, and I wounded the male, but it got 

 into a thick bush and could not be found. It probably crept into 

 some squirrel hole, of which there were several under the bush. 

 Shot a Pyrrhuloxia sinuata, and saw others. Also saw several 

 Lophortyx gambeli and got a chick but a few days old. On the 

 morning of the nth, I got three Callipepla squamata. This is 

 about their southwestern limit. A little further on I saw an Ortyx 

 cross the road, and made out to kill it. This proved to be a male, 

 the type of Mr. Wm. Brewster's Colinus ridgwayi.* It had a 

 dark head and reddish breast and abdomen, and was the same 

 bird that I had seen further back. 



As our night camp was made in very good collecting ground 

 we laid over all day on the 12th. There are several volcanic hills 

 near, and plenty of small trees and caotuses. I obtained seven 

 Peucixa carfialis, including adults and young. Saw Polioptila 

 phiDibca, Anip/i/spiza bilincata, Centurus uropygzah's, Co- 

 laptcs c/irysoidcs, and many other birds. 



On the 13th we drove down a narrow valley all day. It was 

 moderately well timbered, and the cactuses, Cercus schotti and 

 C. tkurberi, began to appear. At our night camp Prognc sti- 

 lus was abundant and noisy. Saw Phainopepla nitens during 

 the day. 



On the 14th I took a nest and set of eggs of Pipilo fuscus 

 mesoleucus, killing the parent ; also a Harporhynckus curvirostris 

 palmeri, having a very large bill. Passed through Altar, a town 

 of some 1200 or 1500 inhabitants, on the Altar River, here a 

 small stream one can nearly jump across. It was the first stream 

 we had seen since leaving Tucson. Here we took the river road 

 to Caborca, some thirty miles distant, passing Pedroquito mid- 

 way. Near Pedroquito I shot a ScardafeUa inca, and saw others. 

 This Dove seems to prefer the small cultivated enclosures around 



* See Auk, II, p. 199. 



