7- Brewster on Birds from Arizona and New Mexico. 



were not as plenty in 1879 as they were last summer. I heard 

 the males until August, at which time I left the Chiracahua 

 Mountains. I have not heard of the species elsewhere in Arizona." 



8. Ficus stricklandi. Malherbe. Strickland's Wood- 

 pecker. — The only record of the occurrence of this Woodpecker 

 within the United States is thai by Mr. Henshaw, who found 

 it abundant in the Chiracahua Mountains. Arizona, in August. 

 1S74. An adult male and female, kindly presented to mc In Mr. 

 Stephens, were taken April 6, 1880, in precisely the same locality. 

 The latter gentleman writes that the species " is at least as com- 

 mon here as am other Woodpecker. I hear or see them daily 

 and could get as many as I had time t;> prepare. In the next 

 range of mountains, seventy-five miles to the northwest, 1 am 

 positive they never come, for I lived there a year and collected 

 much of the time without finding them." 



9. Callipepla squamata. ( VigS)Gray* Scaled Quail.— 

 A line male and female of this species, taken respective!} March 

 [3 and April 2. 1880, on the Rio San Pedro. Arizona, differ so 

 materially from Texas specimens as to strongh suggest varietal 

 distinctness. Although in remarkably fresh plumage, their gen- 

 eral coloring is \er\ pale and bleached. There is not the slight- 

 est [race of the usual rusty chestnut patch on the abdomen, that 

 pan being nearly concolor with the lower portion of the breast. 

 The yellowish-rusty of the anal region and crissum is very light 

 in tint, and the blueish cast on the breast is barely appreciable. 

 The bill. also, is shorter and slenderer than in either of my Texas 

 examples. 



In the absence of a larger suite of specimens. I cannot decide 

 as to the stability of these differences, but should they prove suf- 

 ficiently constant to entitle the Arizona form to varietal separation 

 I would suggest the name pallida as an appropriate one. So 

 far as I can learn, most of the specimens actually examined by 

 ornithologists, have come from localities considerably to the east- 

 ward of that represented by the present examples. 



Some additional species in the collection do not seem to call 

 for any special elaboration and I accordingly give them with the 

 accompanying localities and dates, in the following list. 



10. Harporhynchus crissalis. Henry. Red-vented 

 Thrasher. — $* Tucson. Arizona. Feb. 28. 18S0. 



11. Dendroeca graciee, Coues. Grace's Warbler. — J 1 . 

 Chiracahua Mountains. Arizona, April 6. 1S80. 



