48 Brown, Arizona Bird Notes. I 



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 Jan. 



ing the early summer, but eventually they disappear and are not 

 again seen till they become due in the fall. During the winter 

 months Redwings, Brewer's and Cowbirds make common cause 

 in the streets and yards of this town. Once in a while an odd 

 Yellowhead can be seen among them, but, as a rule, they flock alone. 



Abert's Pipilo is the most common of all pipilos to be found on 

 the Colorado and lower Gila. They are gregarious during the 

 early winter months and, I believe, they go no further south as 

 they are to be found here the year through. I have repeatedly 

 seen large numbers of them together, scratching in the earth and 

 sunning themselves like a lot of quail. May 3, 1900,1 found a 

 nest containing five eggs. That is my earliest record for the year^ 

 and the only nest I ever saw with five eggs. On July 14, of that 

 year I saw young birds still in the nests. During 190 1 I made no- 

 record, but for igo2 I made the most complete one ever made in 

 this section of the country. June 12 I found the first nest of this 

 pipilo, it contained three fresh eggs, and on August 3 the last one. 

 It also contained three eggs. As you will observe, there is a 

 difference of a month and nine days between the nesting seasons 

 of 1900 and 1902, and the difference of fully a month in the 

 closing. The young birds seen July 14 were eight or ten days 

 old, and the eggs taken August 3 were fresh. I have no reason 

 to offer for this great difference. There can be no mistake in the 

 matter for the reason that on each of the years named I had a 

 responsible man in the brush with a note book and his sole busi- 

 ness was to watch the birds. I am almost certain that two broods 

 of young are raised a year. The nest of this pipilo is somewhat 

 bulky, is loosely made and loosely placed in any convenient fork 

 of tree or bush. The favorite nesting material, hereabouts, is the 

 inside bark of willow and Cottonwood. It is torn off in strips,, 

 about one quarter of an inch wide, of varying lengths. An 

 average sized nest is six inches in diameter, outside measurement, 

 and four inches deep, three inches in diameter and two and a half 

 inches deep, inside measurement. It is lined with fibrous roots, 

 shredded bark, hair, grass or other convenient material. During 

 their summer molt the birds are ragged and disreputable in 

 appearance. 



The American White Pelican (^Pelecaniis eryihror/iync/ios) has a 



