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Scott on the Birds of Arizona. [January 



[I find a single specimen in fall plumage in Mr. Scott's collection, 

 labelled as follows : " Catalina Mill, 1 1 Oct., 18S3. ?, 148."— J. A. A.] 



212. Icteria virens longicauda. Long-tailed Chat. — Common mi- 

 grant and summer resident in suitable localities up to an altitude of 4000 

 feet throughout the region. In the Catalinas, altitude 3000 to 4000 feet, 

 it arrives early in May, about the 2d to 5th, and remains till about the 

 20th of September, but by the middle of that month most of the repre- 

 sentatives of the species have left this point. 



213. Sylvahia pusilla pileolata. Piltiolated Warbler. — Rather 

 common migrant, particularly in tall. Frequents the neighborhood of 

 streams and damp places. It is not improbable that a few may breed at 

 high altitudes in the Catalina Range. This inference is made from the 

 verj' early return in fall to the region most studied in these mountains, 

 altitude 3000 to 5000 feet. In the Catalinas, between the elevations just 

 indicated, the species is rather uncommon in the spring, arriving during 

 the last week in April. By the first of June they are no longer to be found, 

 but the first of the fall migrants arrive about August i, and by the middle 

 of the month they are common, remaining until latein September, and 

 being at times during that month very abundant. 



214. Setophaga ruticilla. American Redstart. — The only record 

 made of the occurrence of this species was the capture of an adult male 

 in the Catalina Mountains, altitude 4500 feet, August 12, 1884. Mr. Her- 

 bert Brown has also taken it on one occasion near Tucson in spring. So 

 far as I am aware these are the only records for the Territoi"y of Arizona, 

 and in the region here treated the bird must be considered rare. 



215. Setophaga picta. Painted Redstart. — This species I have met 

 with only in the Catalina Range, and at an altitude exceeding 4000 feet. 

 It is apparently most abundant as a summer visitor in the pine forests of 

 these mountains, though I found them breeding as low down as five thou- 

 sand feet in the evergreen oak belt. This was on two occasions, the young 

 having just left the nest both times. The birds seem to prefer the vicin- 

 ity of water, and are not to be met with far from such localities. 



As migrants, at the lower altitude, when they occur, they are quite rare 

 in the spring, but not at all uncommon in the fall. 



In the Catalinas, altitude 4000 feet, the earliest spring arrivals that I 

 have noted were on March 24, 1885, when one was taken and another seen. 

 These were all that were noted at this point, or outside of the pine forests 

 that spring. (For record of occurrence in the pine region, see Auk, Vol. 

 II, No. 4, p. 353, October, 1S85.) The species is frequent at the lower alti- 

 tudes through September, but by October i all have apparently gone. 



216. Cardellina rubrifrons. Red-faced Warbler. — This species was 

 met with only in the pine forests of the Catalinas, where it was common 

 late in April, 1S85 (see Auk, Vol. II, No. 4, p. 353, October, 1885). The 

 only additional notes that I have were made in the pine forests of Mount 

 Rice, in the same range, April 30, 1SS5, when a few were noted in pairs, 

 but they were very shy. 



{To be concluded.) 



