1S92.] Anthony, Binfs of Soui/tzvcslcrn Neru Mexico, Try 



bushes on the marsh at Ocosta, April 30. Helminthopila c. litfcscens 

 seemed to be the most common Warbler during my stay. Then came 

 Dendroica andnboni, and after May 2, I ofteti saw or heard Syloania p. 

 pileolata. At Iloquiam, May 6, I saw two Dendroica nigrescens, and 

 shot one. 



Thryothorus bewickii spilurus. Vigors's Wren. — Resident. Not 

 common. One seen at Ocosta May 2 ; a few others heard. At South 

 Bend I saw one, Feb. 18. Besides its harsh, grating call this Wren has a 

 song represented somewhat by the following: ir-twe, tr-twe, che-we' , cke- 

 ■zve', che-ive'. It is generally sung from the top of a tall bush or other 

 high perch. 



Cistothorus palustris paludicola. Long-billeu Marsh Wren. — Shot 

 one of a pair seen Feb. 14 on the salt marsh below South Bend. At 

 Ilwaco, March 9, 1 saw one, and listened to its song while it clung to a reed. 

 Its song was a queer medley of grating. Wren-like notes, followed by 

 clear little peeps, — animated, unique. 



In regard to Salpinctes obsoleius, given in my 'Preliminary List' (Auk, 

 IX, 47), Mr. Palmer suggests (Auk, IX, 310) that Gray's Harbor is much 

 out of its usual range. It is; but the species was present in 1890. 1 have 

 but once since met this bird: at Seattle, Nov. 15, 1891, when a single 

 individual allowed for some minutes a close inspection. It moved about 

 on a gravelly bank on Renton Hill. 



BtRDS OF SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO. 



BY A, W. ANTHONY. 



As faunal lists of the birds of our southwestern liorder are by- 

 no means as numerous as is desirable, those treating of the desert 

 regions being especially rare, I have considered the following 

 notes as perhaps worthy of publication. The region embraced 

 in the present paper lies to the southward of the Southern 

 Pacific Railroad, in the extreme southwestern part of Grant 

 County, New Mexico, where that Territory extends its lines to 

 the south into Mexico, making a 'pan handle' of forty miles 

 north and south, by the same distance east and west. 



This region is an extensive plain, having a mean elevation of 

 about 5500 feet, and is broken by numerous short ranges of 

 mountains usually not extending more than a few miles before 



