446 Bailey, Summer Birds 0/ San Miguel County, N. M. Vq^^ 



seen on the plains June 20, one with three half grown whitish downy 

 young. On June 22, two or three pairs were found driving a lobo from 

 their nesting ground. 



Callipepla squamata. Scaled Partridge. — Common in tlie juniper 

 and pinon pine belt across the southern part of the county as far north as 

 Ribera. 



Columba fasciata. Band-tailed Pigeon. — A few were seen on the 

 Upper Pecos. 1 



Accipiter velox. Sharp-shinned Hawk. — One seen August 28 near 

 Las Vegas. 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Bald Eagle. — Seen at 8000 feet in the 

 Pecos Mountains. 



Bubo virginianus pallescens. Western Horned Owl. — Heard in the 

 Pecos Mountains, and at Solitario on the eastern foothills. 



Asyndesmus torquatus. Lewis Woodpecker. — Seen June 25 at about 

 6500 feet in the yellow pines on the Mesa del Agua de la Yegua, and on 

 September 4, in the pines near Solitario Peak. 



Selasphorus rufus. Rufous Hummingbird. — At Pecos, at the south 

 base of the Rocky Mountains, on August 25, an adult male rufus was 

 seen, doubtless on its way down from the mountains. On August 29 

 another was seen a few miles north of Las Vegas. 



Stellula calliope. Calliope Hummingbird. — On the western border 

 of the county, three miles south of Pecos, a Calliope Hummingbird was 

 taken August 25. 



Tyrannus tyrannus. Kingbird. — Though apparently unrecorded from 

 New Mexico, Kingbirds were found on the Pecos River in two localities. 

 Between La Cuesta and Sena on June 30 we saw them over the cultivated 

 fields and orchards of the bottom lands. At Ribera on July 2, when we 

 were camped in the junipers above the Mexican corn fields, a Raven 

 (Corvus sinuatus) stole into the junipers apparently in search of a brood 

 of nestling robins. The cries of the old robin attracted a kingbird which 

 flew in protesting vociferously, and gave chase so hotly that the raven 

 beat a hasty retreat. While neither the plains, the deserts, nor the moun- 

 tains offer attractions to kingbirds, this section of the Pecos River, with 

 its rich bottom lands which have been cultivated for centuries by the 

 Mexicans of the old pueblos, affords ideal breeding grounds for the birds, 

 and had it not been for the absence of naturalists their presence would 

 doubtless have been discovered long since. 



Tyrannus vociferans. Cassin Kingbird. — Common. Often seen 

 with 7'. verticalis. 



Myiarchus cinerascens. Ash-throated Flycatcher. — Myiarchus 

 was a common bird of the junipers in the southern part of the county in 



1 Additional Notes on the Birds of the Upper Pecos. Auk, Vol. XXI, 

 1904, pp. 349-363- 



