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Chamaea fasciata rufula. Ruddy Wren-tit. Tolerably common at Marshalls. 



Psaltriparus minimus calif ornicus. Sacramento Bush-tit. Beswick in garden. 



Regulus satrapa olivaceous. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet. Beswick 

 (high ridges) Crescent City, Alton Junction, Rio Dell, Henley's Ranch. 



Myadestes townsendi. Townsend Solitaire. Quite common in Canadian 

 Zone about Beswick. 



Hylocichla guttata slevini. Monterey Hermit Thrush. South Yallo Bally, 

 (identified by Biological Survey). 



Hylocichla guttata guttata. Alaska Hermit Thrush. Beswick, September 18; 

 Crescent City, October 13, (identified by Biological Survey). 



Hylocichla ustulata ustulata. Russet-backed Thrush. Camp Meeker. 



Merula migratoria propinqua. Western Robin. Common on South Yallo 

 Bally. Beswick, Orick, Alton Junction, Rio Dell. 



Ixoreus naevius. Varied Thrush. Henley's Ranch. 



Sialia mexicana occidentalis. California Bluebird. Beswick, Orick, Trinidad, 

 Alton Junction. 



Sialia arctica. Mountain Bluebird. Common on South Yallo Bally moving 

 about in restless flocks and uttering a plaintive, melancholy call. Young in the 

 Juvenal plumage seen. 



Lake Forest^ Illinois. 



AN ARIZONA NEST CENSUS 



By F. C. WILI.ARD 



I WAS particularly impressed on my arrival in Tombstone some years ago, by 

 the almost total absence of trees. A few scattering umbrella trees with a scant 

 score of small cottonwoods were all that graced the city except a cluster that 

 stood by themselves at the northern edge. 



The residence of Mr. F. N. Wolcott is shaded by several good-sized cotton- 

 woods with a fringe of small umbrella trees and mulberries lining the fence. A 

 couple of fig trees, a peach and a weeping willow complete the list which is pieced 

 out by climbing roses and various other climbing vines. 



Numerous small birds find this haven as grateful, apparently, as we of the 

 human kind. I was much interested this past year in the numerous bird homes 

 built there. 



A pair of Vermillion Flycatchers had their first nest on one of the branches of 

 the largest cottonwood, about forty feet from the ground. In a honeysuckle almost 

 under their domicile were two nests of the House Finch, while two others were in 

 a large rose covering one side of the house. 



In a dead stub of the willow a Baird Woodpecker reared a hungry brood. 

 Another tall cottonwood was well tenanted with a pair each of the Cassin Kingbird, 

 Bullock Oriole, Arizona Hooded Oriole, and several pairs of House Finches whose 

 exact number I was never able to determine. A Costa Hummer had her nest in a 

 smaller cottonwood near by. 



A little later several pairs of Canyon Towhees forsook the brush of the adjacent 

 gulches and gathered among these trees. One cottonwood held three occupied 

 Canyon Towhee nests and two of the Arizona Hooded Oriole at one time in June, 

 and at the same time there were three other occupied nests of the Canj^on Towhee 



