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The Texan night-hawk and the western night-hawk 

 both occurred in the hills, and the poor-will as 

 well as the Arizona whippoorwill may be men- 

 tioned. Woodpeckers were singularly numerous. 

 Harris's, Gairdner's, the Texan, and the Arizona 

 woodpecker frequented the live-oaks ; as did more 

 rarely the red-naped sapsucker ; Lewis's wood- 

 pecker was a migrant on the mountain sides, and 

 in the fall great flocks of these were always 

 present ; while the Gila woodpecker and the red- 

 shafted flicker were resident, the one locally and 

 the other widely distributed. In the higher 

 country these species were augmented by the 

 California and Williamson's woodpecker; and in 

 some regions, where the giant cactus abounded, 

 the gilded flicker was by no means uncommon. 



Among the birds of prey may be mentioned 

 the turkey vulture, the marsh-hawk, sharp-shinned 

 hawk, Cooper's hawk, Harris's hawk, the western 

 red-tailed hawk, Swainson's hawk, all of which 

 occurred either as migrants or as breeding birds 

 in the vicinity of the " Little Palace." From the 

 piazza I watched two golden eagles repairing 

 their nest early in November, and these birds 

 were a constant feature in the panorama of bird 

 life. I have seen them catch large jack-rabbits, 

 and carry such animals away to their eyrie with 

 apparent ease. The Arizona jay was a common 

 resident and bred in the live oaks, and Wood- 



