A.02 General Notes. [October 



a view to nest-building. Those poles being longer and larger than the 

 mesquite timber, which abounds along the road from San Antonio to Cas- 

 troville in Medina County, seem to offer better facilities for nesting than 

 the small short trunks of the mesquite. From Medina County we traced the 

 species northeasterly to the Colorado River, in San Daba County, about one 

 hundred and fifty miles. From this point to Gainesville, Texas, some'two 

 hundred miles northeast, we did not encounter the species, and there seems 

 to be a narrow belt of neutral land between the eastern range of the Yel- 

 low-faced Woodpecker and the western limit of its near relative, the Red- 

 bellied Woodpecker. 



"During the fall of the same year (1S7S) I started from Gainesville, 

 Texas, and traveled a little south of west, and was surprised to find the 

 species on the Brazos River, so far north. Traveling westward, we 

 seemed to pass beyond the bird, as we did not see it in Taylor and Nolan 

 Counties at all. 



"On our return we noted the species again in the vicinity of the Brazos 

 River still above where we crossed that river going out and near Fort 

 Belknap. At this point it is only about forty miles from Red River; and 

 the bird may be looked for on that stream, although Lieutenant McCauley 

 does not mention it in his notes on the birds of the upper Red River. — 

 G. H. Ragsdale, Gainesville, Texas, Aug. /, '79." 



Eastland County lies south of 32 30' while Belknap is north of 33°. — 

 G. H. Ragsdale, Gainesville, Texas. 



Notes on Eugenes fulgens. — This Hummingbird is a summer resident 

 in the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. It arrives in May, but is nowhere plen- 

 tiful until the mescal shrubs begin to blossom, about the middle of June. 

 From this time on during the entire summer one may observe on almost 

 any hillside below the pine belt large clusters of bright red or yellow 

 flowers spreading out from stalks ten or fifteen feet high. There are 

 many varieties of this plant and all are favorite feeding resorts of the 

 Rivoli Hummer. I have shot as many as a dozen in a day simply by sit- 

 ting down and watching for them to come and feed. It is necessary to 

 select a well-matured plant, and at the proper elevation, as well as in 

 good surroundings of spruce pines. While feeding, these birds range 

 from 4.500 to 8,000 feet altitude or up to the pine belt, their favorite 

 grounds being where the pines end on the downward slope. Their flight 

 is exceedingly rapid at times but they often fly slowly so that the wings 

 can be easily seen during the beats. The noise made by this bird's wings 

 during a rapid flight is not like the buzzing of the small Hummer's wings, 

 the beats being more slow and distinct, without any buzzing noise. 



Their note is a twittering sound, louder, not so shrill, and uttered more 

 slowly than those of the small Hummers. 



From July 5 to 9 I examined nine females; one had already laid and 

 the others contained<eggs that would probably have been laid within from 

 one to four days. On July 10 my search for the nest was at last rewarded. 

 The country I had explored was from 7,500 to 10,000 feet elevation, 



