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manifesting alarm. The moment, however, it found itself observed, it 

 dropped down, and ran swiftly a short distance, till an uprising bank 

 hid it from view, when it stopped, and I overtook and shot it. The 

 crop was nearly filled with grasshoppers and a few coleopterous insects. 

 Dr. Newberry also procured a specimen at Fort Bowie. 



(the Woodpeckers). 



127. Picus villosus, L., var. harrisii, Aud. Western Hairy Woodpecker. 

 The most abundant of its tribe in the region visited by the survey. 



With a decided preference for the pines, it yet, in the fall, is found 

 straggling all over the country and frequenting the deciduous trees 

 generally. 



128. Picus pubescens L., var. gairdeneri, Aud. Western Downy Wood- 

 pecker. 



One or two noticed among the cottonwoods along the Gila River in 

 October. The rarity of this species, as compared with the extreme 

 abundance of the preceding, is very remarkable. 



129. Picus scalaris, Wagl. Ladder-backed Woodpecker. 



Not found at Apache, In a canon thirty miles south, Dr. Newberry 

 shot one and saw several others. Along the Gila and San Pedro Rivers 

 it appeared to be a rather common woodpecker, noticed most often 

 about the mezquite, the trunks of which it appeared to scan most care- 

 fully for food. Its notes and manners are much like those of the Downy 

 Woodpecker. 



130. Sphyropicus varius (L.), var. nuclialis, Bd. Red-naped Woodpecker. 

 An abundant and generally well-distributed species, found among the 



deciduous trees. 



131. Sphyropicns thyroidcus, Cass. Brown-headed Woodpecker ; Black- 

 breasted Woodpecker; Williamson's Woodpecker. 



Specimens secured near the headwaters of the Gila, in New Mexico. 

 As in summer, found only in the pine- woods, where they associated with 

 the bands of Nuthatches. 



132. Centurus uropygialis, Bd. Gila Woodpecker. 



Not met with farther north than the valley of the Gila. Here, how- 

 ever, and to the southward, it was not uncommon. The Giant Cactus 

 (Cereus giganteus), which forms a most striking and characteristic feature 



