April 1904] BIRDS OF THE H1TACHUCA MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA. .37 



as late as May n, were in the brown streaked plumage of the female, 

 and several in this plumage were in full song. 



Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (Say). House Finch. 



A summer resident, but in very limited numbers. I have not found 

 it common anywhere in or near the mountains, nor have I seen any above 

 6000 and but very few above 5000 feet. The first seen in 1903, was a male 

 which I secured on March 6; from then until the first of May two flocks 

 of five or six each, and an occasional bird at long intervals, were all that 

 were seen. In May a few were observed in pairs and they gradually 

 became more numerous as the summer advanced. I have seen more in 

 August than at any other time, but they never become abundant enough 

 to call upon their heads the wrath of the fruit grower, as in California ; 

 and as several species of birds have done here, more or less deservedly. 

 Though the House Finches I secured in the Huachucas and Santa Rita 

 Mountains do not differ appreciably in size or proportions from South- 

 ern California birds, the difference of color in the males is certainly 

 striking; the Arizona birds having the head and breast of a bright rose- 

 pink, very different from the darker colored California birds. There is 

 usually more or less red on the back, and frequently the whole crown is 

 uniformly of this color, but there is considerable variation in these re- 

 spects. 



Loxia curvirostra Strickland! Ridgway. Mexican CrossVill. 



My experience with this species was very limited, but from informa- 

 tion received from Mr. O. W. Howard and others, I should judge that it 

 occurred with fair* regularity in the Huachucas as a fall migrant. The 

 first I saw was a flock of four birds on August 30, 1902, at an elevation 

 of about 9000 feet, and I saw others on several occasions before I left the 

 mountains, about a week later. All that were seen were so wild as to 

 be unapproachable, and it was by chance that I secured a single bird, a 

 female, which happened to alight within gunshot of where I was stand- 

 ing. I have several males taken in the Huachuca Mountains by H. 

 Kimball, apparently in fresh autumnal plumage, but unfortunately with- 

 out data. 



Astragalinus psaltria (Say). Arkansas Goldfinch. 



I have never found this species at all common in the Huachuca 

 Mountains. From March until nearly the end of June an occasional 

 stray bird, wandering up into the canyons, was all that was seen ; but 

 after the summer rains they became a little more abundant, and small 

 flocks were frequently seen feeding on weeds close to the ground ; oc- 

 casionally venturing up the canyons to an altitude of 5500 feet. All the 

 males secured have more or less admixture of black in the auriculars. 

 scapulars, etc., and one or two very dark colored ones were seen but not 

 secured. 



Spinus pinus (Wilson). Pine Siskin. 



A very abundant migrant, appearing about the end of March and 

 remaining in considerable numbers until the end of May. I saw one or 

 two single birds in June, 1902, but doubt very much if any breed in the 

 mountains, though from the early date at which they reappear in the 

 fall, their breeding ground can not lie so very far to the northward. On 

 August 7, 1902, I saw several flocks, and from that time on they were 

 quite abundant; but though in the spring they were generally distributed 

 throughout the mountains, in August all that were seen were in the pines 



