196 Brewster on a Collecfion of Arizona Birds. 



432, $ ad., Tucson, May 25. Length. 5.80; extent. 7.S0 : wintj, 2.46: 

 tail, 2.75. With nest and three eggs. 



442, $ ad., Tucson, May 27. Length, 5. So; 'extent. S: wing, 2. 58; 



tail, 3. 



^82, $ ad., Camp Lowell. June 24. Length. 5.90: extent. 8. 20: wing, 

 2.55 ; tail, 2.91. 



74. Peucaea ruficeps boucardi (6c/.) 7?/^^-. Boucard'.s 

 Sparrow. — These Sparrows were met with at Cave Creek, 

 near Morse's Mill, and in the Santa Rita Mountains. Among 

 some notes taken at the first-named place I find the following : 

 "I saw five of these Sparrows to-day [March 4] but two of 

 them escaped me. They were in scrub-oaks on rocky hillsides, 

 and were apparently mated. They acted somewhat like Wrens, 

 hiding among the rocks and flushing from the grass at a point 

 some distance beyond where I wovild mark them down. Two 

 went into the low branches of the oaks, from which I easily shot 

 them. I have not found the .species before in Arizona, but I took 

 several near Fort Bayard, New Mexico, in 1876." A specimen 

 taken near the end of March was sRot "on a ridge among thick 

 brush," while two others, obtained in the Santa Rita Moimtains in 

 May, occurred at a high elevation on' similar ground. 



1, ,y ad.. Cave Creek, March 4. Length, 6.60; extent. 8.30: wing. 

 2.80; tail, 3.29. 



2, $ ad., same locality and date. Length, 6.40; extent, 7.90; wing, 

 2.60; tail, 3.02. 



3, $ ad., same locality and date. Length. 6.50; extent, 8.20. "Iris 

 brown; legs pale flesh-color; bill dark bluish slate-color." 



138, $ ad., Chiricahua Mountains, March 31. Length. 6.50; extent, 

 8.30; wing, 2.56; tail, 3.15. 



387, $ ad., Santa Rita Mountains, May 16. Length, 6. 10; extent, 8.10; 

 wino-, 2.58; tail, 2.95. "Iris brown; bill blackish above, light bluish below; 

 legs pale flesh-color." 



413, $ ad., Santa Rita Mountains, May 20. Length, 6.30; extent. 7. So; 

 wing, 2.50; tail, 3. 



The specimens enumerated above represent true boticardi and are readily 

 separable from Texas examples by the characters which my friend Mr. 

 Brown has lately pointed out* in his diagnosis of the new race, eremasca. 



75. Melospiza fasciata fallax Baird. Western Song 

 Sparrow. — Rather common about Tucson where they liaunted 

 willow thickets and tall marsh grass near water. 



258, $ ad., Tucson, April 21. Length, 6.30; extent, S.20; wing, 2.60: 

 tail, 2.98; culmen,-.58. "Iris dark brown; bill dark above, light below: 

 legs light brown. With nest and three eggs." 



* This Bulletin, Vol. VII, p. 26. 



