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March 23, 1885. Altitude, 3200 feet. Found an unfinished nest in a 

 cholla 2 feet 6 inches from ground. Visiting the same nest on 25th March, 

 it was finished and contained two fresh eggs. Structure identical with 

 that found on 17th March. On the 27th it contained four fresh eggs, 

 which I secured. 



March 28, 18S5. Altitude, 3400 feet. Nest in cholla, two feet from 

 the ground. Similar to nest of 17th of March, being built of same mate- 

 rials. Contained, when found, two fresh eggs. On April i it contained 

 six eggs and the parent bird was sitting. 



I have data of other nests built at considerable height, the greatest 

 beirtg rather more than fifteen feet from the ground, and though a pref- 

 erence seems to be shown for building in the chollas, yet I have found 

 nests in almost all the varieties of trees that grow in the region frequented 

 by the birds. The greatest number of eggs found in one nest is eight. 

 The males share the duties of incubation with the females and show quite 

 as great concern in the care of the young. 



[Mr. Scott's collection contains a series of five young of different ages. 

 These show that the first or nestling plnmage differs little from the adult 

 stage, except in being softer or more fluffy and downy. In the youngest 

 specimens, apparently not many days old, the clothing feathers are 

 tipped with a white hair-like appendage, one-fourth to half an inch in 

 length. These hair-like tips soon fall off, onh- a very few remaining on 

 specimens nearly ready to leave the nest. The chief difference in color 

 consists in the broad shaft stripes of the feathers of the neck and breast 

 being less sharply defined in the young than in the adult, and in the brown 

 edgings bordering the shaft-stripes being paler. — J. A. A.] 



78. Coccyzus americanus. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. — Rare during 

 the months of June and July on the San Pedro slope of the Catalina 

 Mountains, ranging as low as 4000 feet. The only specimen collected is 

 an adult male (No. 500), taken July 4, 1884, at an altitude of 4000 feet. 



79. Trogon — — ^ — A species of Trogon undoubtedly occurs 



casually in the Catalina Mountains. A laborer who had manifested con- 

 siderable intei-est in my collections, described to me a bird he had seen 

 only a few hours before, which he believed "was a kind of bird of paradise." 

 He said it was quite tame, allowing him to approach closely. "Had a very 

 long brilliant tail, and was bright pink on the breast." This was on Sep- 

 tember 20, 1884, and about a mile from my house. Subsequently two 

 other men saw the same or a similar bird. 



80. Ceryle alcyon. Kingfisher. — A resident species. Met with at 

 the several points where I collected, but it retires from the mountains in 

 the winter. It is a curious fact that the species is frequently to be found 

 in this region far from water, feeding on the larger insects and lizards. It 

 always seemed strange to meet the bird under 'desert' conditions. 



Si. Dryobates villosus harrisii. Harris's Woodpecker. — Resident 

 in the pine forests, and a winter visitor to the lower altitudes, though I 

 believe thus far it has not been detected about Tucson. It generally made 

 its appearance about my house (altitude 4500 feet^ early in November, and 



