Brewster on Birds from Arizona and New Mexico. 6t) 



with the .species at Camp Apache in 1874. says. " with the 

 exception of the call-notes used by both sexes, and which resem- 

 ble the syllables chuck, chuck, several times repeated, they were 

 perfectly silent and neither here nor elsewhere did I ever hear any 

 song." This was probably due to the lateness of the season. 

 Mr. Henshaw's observations being made in July and August. 



5. Cardinalis virginianus igneus (Baird) Cones. Saint 

 Lucas Cardinal. — A single adult male of this well marked race 

 is in the collection, from the San Pedro River. I mention it in 

 the present connection chiefly for the purpose of calling attention 

 to some interesting specimens collected by Mr. X. C. Brown, 

 in Kendall Co., Texas, during the spring of 1SS0. These birds 

 are nearly intermediate between cardinalis and igneus, their 

 tails being much longer than in the eastern species, while the bills 

 are larger and more swollen ; the red of the crest clearer, and 

 the black on the forehead reduced to the narrowest possible line. 



6. Icterus parisorum, Bonap. Scott's Oriole. — Mr. 

 Stephens sends me three males of this Oriole. Thev were taken 

 in the Chiracahua Mountains, not far from the locality where 

 Mr. Henshaw met with the species in 1S74. The accompanying 

 notes describe them as Li active, restless, and very sweet singers."' 

 They were rather uncommon and no females were seen. The 

 adult plumage is apparently not perfected before the second 

 year, as two of the present examples lack the black hood and 

 back, and are otherwise dull-colored, although taken late in the 

 spring. 



7. Antrostomus vociferus arizonae. var. nov. Stephens's 

 "Whip-poor-will. 



Cii. sp. Similis A. vocifero; sed major; alis longioribus ; 

 rictus setis longioribus ; loris, striga superciliari, gulae phaleriscjue 

 lunatis fulvis ; albo in cauda contraction. 



$ (No 5238, author's collection) , Chiracahua Mountains, Ari- 

 zona, May 22. 1880. Generally similar to A. vociferus but 

 much larger ; with the rictal bristles considerably longer ; the gular 

 crescent and a pretty well defined superciliar} stripe, ochraceous; 

 the lores and auriculars tawny ochraceous. The white of the 

 tail barely tipping the outer web of the lateral feathers and on the 

 others confined to a narrow apical space ;* the under tail-coverts 

 nearly without barringf. 



* On the inner web of the outer pair of feathers this space measures 1. 11 inches in 



depth; of the second pair, 1-50; of the third, [.55, 



