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plete local list of the summer birds of the Papago Indian 

 Reservation near Tucson. Notes from the great stretches of 

 country comprising- the northern part of the state are frag- 

 mentary or lacking. 



The following brief notes are offered supplementary to the 

 above. They cover the three months from January 25 to 

 April 25, 1912, and were made mostly in the north part of 

 town or upon the plains one mile to the north. Mrs. James 

 Wheeler, who resides two miles northeast of Tucson, has 

 done considerable hunting among the water birds and has 

 also mounted quite a few of them. I had the pleasure of ex- 

 amining them and am indebted to her for data concerning 

 same. The fact that the writer was supposed to be an " in- 

 valid " explains the brevity of the notes. Thirty skins were 

 made up and properly identified. The other forty species 

 observed furnished data identical with what has been already 

 published. 



By February 20 the fruit trees were in bloom and the cot- 

 tonwoods had small leaves. Gnats became numerous and at- 

 tracted thousands of Ruby-crowned Kinglets, gnatcatchers 

 and warblers. On February 23 we had a hard dust storm, 

 which confused the migrating hosts greatly, and prohibited 

 food-getting for most of the day. Consequently the birds 

 were up late and were heard beating around the buildings all 

 that night. It rained the rest of the night, but as the morn- 

 ing was warm and clear, the hosts were out early, fairly 

 swarming everywhere. Brewer's Sparrows were extremely 

 common and next in abundance to the Blackbirds. The first 

 small lizard came on March 1st, and the cricket chorus there- 

 after resounded nightly. March 9th it stormed in the moun- 

 tains and I took a much-bedraggled female Cedar Waxwing 

 that evening. March 12th we had a hard rain, which later 

 turned to snow. From the custom of scratching their heads 

 it was evident that the birds were either puzzled over the 

 weather or else assisting the molting process. March 30 we 

 had another rain, and a snow in the mountains. I searched 

 the north part of town carefully for more Waxwings, but 



