" S86.] Brewster ofi PeaWs Petrel. t8q 



begins from three weeks to a month earlier. I have taken birds late in Oc- 

 tober that still were moulting from the nest plumage. 



49. Cyrtonyx montezumse. Massena Partridge. — This partridge I 

 found rather commonly in the evergreen oak region of the Pinal Moun- 

 tains, near the head of Mineral Creek. Also in about the same abun. 

 dance and in the same localities on the San Pedro slope of the Catalina 

 Mountains, ranging up as high as 5700 feet, and as low as 4000 feet 

 throughout the year. It is generally to be met with in small coveys of 

 from six to a dozen birds, and seems to affect points where the coarser 

 bunch grass is most luxuriant. I have not found it breeding, but have 

 taken young about two-thirds grown and still in the nest plumage early 

 in October, in the Catalina Mountains. 



Mr. Brown tells me that it is a common species in the oak region of the 

 Santa Rita Mountains, and is generally to be met with in the same region 

 on the mountains southward to the Mexican border. 



50. Meleagris gallopavo. mexicana. Mexican Turkey. — The only 

 records of this species that I have are from the San Pedro River, and the 

 oak and pine region of the Catalina Mountains. The bird seems, from 

 what I can learn, to have already greatly decreased in numbers in most 

 localities, and to have become exterminated in others where it was formerlj' 

 abundant. In the pine woods of the Catalinas at the highest altitudes it 

 was very common late in November, 18S5, though snow covered the 

 ground. 



( To be continued^ 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON PEALE'S PETREL 

 {^^STRELATA GULARIS). 



BY WILLIAM BREWSTER. 



In his description* of the new Alaskan Petrel, ^'Estrelata 

 Jisheri^ Mr. Ridgway intimates that perhaps I was mistaken in 

 referring an yEstrelata taken in Western New Yorkf to u^. 

 gularis, adding that it "seems, judging from the description, to 

 belong rather to ^E. Jisheriy Through the courtesy of the 

 National Museum the type oi ^E. gidaris has been permitted to 

 make a second journey to Cambridge, this time in company with 

 the type of yE. jisheri ; thus these three interesting birds are 

 at length brought together. 



* Proc. U. S, Nat. Mus., Vol. V, 1883, pp. 656-658. 

 t Bull. N. O. C, Vol. IV, April, 1881, pp. 91-97. 



