BULLETIN 



NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



VOL. VII. April, 1882. • No. 2. 



ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS LATELY MADE 

 BY MR. F. STEPHENS IN ARIZONA. 



BY WILLIAM BREWSTER. 



Early in 18S1 I wrote to Mr. Stephens asking him to get me 

 some Arizona birds during the following spring and summer. 

 He replied that he was on the point of starting by wagon for 

 California, but that being provided with a camping outfit, and 

 feeling under no necessity of hurrying by the way, he was willing 

 to give his whole attention, for several months at least, to collect- 

 ing in my interest. It was accordingly arranged that the journey 

 should take in as great a variety of country as possible, and, that 

 the most productive points should be thoroughly worked. The 

 energy, intelligence, and conscientiousness with which this plan 

 was carried out are sufiiciently attested by the material results 

 upon which the present paper is based. 



The route traversed was substantially as follows : Leaving 

 Galeyville on March 3, Mr. Stephens drove southward to Cave 

 Creek, where a few days' collecting yielded a limited number of 

 birds. At the end of this time he retraced his steps to Galeyville, 

 and continuing northward, passed Camp Bowie, and crossed to 

 the western side of the Chiricahua Mountains. Here a halt was 

 made at Morse's Mill, after a journey of seventy miles by wagon- 

 road from Cave Creek, although the distance is less than twelve 



