140 Brewster on a Collection of An'zon.i Birds. 



narrow and several shades lighter in color. Compareti with eastern ex- 

 amples they of course present an even greater contrast. Dr. Coues was 

 undoubtedly right in saying (Birds of the Colorado Valley, p. 327) that 

 pileolatus "is not confined to the Pacific coast region"; but I cannot agree 

 with him in thinking it an inconstant form. On the contrary, I find its 

 characters, as proposed by Mr. Ridgway, so well maintained that any one 

 of my western birds can be separated at a glance when placed in a series 

 of twenty-one specimens from the Atlantic States. 



221, $ ad., Cienega Station, April 17. Length, 4.70; extent, 6.80; 

 wing. 2.17; tail, 2.23; width of bill below nostiiis, .12. "Iris brown ; bill 

 dark above, pale brown below. Common here in willows and underbrush 

 along streams." 



257,^ ad., Tucson, April 21. Length, 4.90; extent, 7; wing 2.27; tail, 

 2.30; width of bill below nostrils, .12. 



44. Setophaga picta Sxvains, Painted Red.start. — 

 During" the past season this beautiful species was met with only 

 among the Chiricahua and Santa Rita Mountains, but in 1876 

 Mr. Stephens found it in New Mexico, a Territory from which I 

 believe it has not previously been reported. In the Chiricahua 

 Mountains it was not uncommon after March 21, and many spec- 

 imens were taken near Morse's Mill, at an elevation of fully 

 seven thousand feet. rhey occurred most numerously among 

 pines, in a canon where thev had been previously observed in 

 April. iSSo. Tliis experience, it will be observed, differs some- 

 what from that recorded l)y Mr. Henshaw, who says: 'Tt ap- 

 pears not to inhabit the high moimtains nor the extreme lowlands, 

 but to occup\' an intermediate position, and to find the rocky 

 hills covereil with a sparse growth of oak most congenial to its 

 habits." 



In the vSanta Rita Moimtains. where it was rather common in 

 Mav. Mr. Stephens had the good fortune to find its previously 

 unknown nest and eggs. The nest, which is now before me. is 

 large, flat and shallow. It is composed of bark, coarse fibres 

 from weed-stalks, and fine, bleached grasses, the latter, with a 

 few hairs, forming a simple lining. The cup measures 2.10 in- 

 ches in width bv i inch in depth : while the external diameter of 

 the whole structure is rather more than 5 inches, and its depth 

 about i.^o. The eggs, which were three in number, measure 

 respectively .64 X.5 1 ; .64X-5o: and.66X-49- They are clear, 

 dead white, delicately spotted with light reddish-brown, the mark- 

 ino-s beino" sparselv distributed over the general surface of the 

 e<J""-, and handsomelv wreathed about its largei' end. Neither nest 



