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73. Numenius americanus Bechstein. 



LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 



Synonym Nitincnius longirostris. 



Status Cones ( i866a, p. 98) secured a specimen at Fort~Whipple in Aug- 

 ust, 1864; Scott (1886. p. 386) recorded it as a migrant about Tucson, on the 

 authority of Brown; Sloanaker (1913, p. 195) reports a specimen from Tucson, 

 October 12, ic,ii; and Stephens (1903, p. 77) noted it on the Colorado River, 

 at F.hrenberg, in August. These are all the records for Arizona. 



74. Oxyechus vociferus (Linnaeus). 



KlLLDEER. 



S\nonyms Charadriits rod/cms; Acgialitis vociferus. 



Status A common summer visitant, and, along the lower Colorado River 

 at least, a winter visitant also. Breeds in suitable localities throughout the state, 

 except in the arid Lower Sonoran southwestern portion. Common in summer in 

 the valleys of southeastern Arizona ; in the Mogollon Plateau region it ranges up 

 to 7000 feet (Mearns, i8o/>a, p. 52). 



75. AEglalitis semipalmata (Bonaparte). 



SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. 



Status Seen by Cones ( i866a, p. 96) on the Colorado River in September 

 and October, 1865 5 Scott (1886, p. 387) found it abundant in the vicinity of Tuc- 

 son, during April, 1883. These are the only records. 



76. Podasocys montanns (Townsend). 



MOUNTAIN PLOVER. 



Synonyms ^Egialitis montamts; Hndromias inonlanns. 



Status Cones ( i866a, p. 96) met with this species, presumably at Fort 

 \Yhipple, and says that it is ''sparingly distributed throughout Arizona." The 

 only other record from Arizona is that of Osgood (1903, p. 128), who found it 

 abundant at Sulphur Spring, Cochise County, in December and January. 



77. Colinus ridgwayi Brewster. 



MASKED BOB-WHITE. 



Synonyms Orty.v firginianns; Orty.v graysoni; Ortyx ridgzvayi. 



Status This species formerly occupied a very limited region in extreme 

 southern Arizona. Baboquivari Peak on the west, and the Huachuca Mountains 

 on the east, were about the limits of its extension, nor was it known to range 

 more than thirty or forty miles north of the United States-Mexican boundary 

 line. It is now supposed to be nearly or quite extinct in Arizona ; there is no 

 reliable published account of a specimen secured in the state since 1888. 



78. Callipepla squamata squamata (Vigors). 



SCALED QUAIL. 



Status A common resident of the arid, semi-desert, Lower Sonoran val- 

 leys of southeastern Arizona, usually below 4000 feet, occasionally up to 4500 

 feet. Has been found as far west as the Altar Valley and Wood's Station, ninety 



