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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



I found several old nests here which bore in their plan of structure and the 

 site chosen a remarkable resemblance to the nests of the Scarlet Tanager. 

 They were composed mainly of coarse rootlets and the dried stems of 

 plants, lined with finer material of the same nature ; the nest, as a whole, 

 being of a slight, unsubstantial character, and jdaced on the ends of the low 

 horizontal branches of the oaks. I have found nests of the Scarlet Tanager 

 at the East which differed scarcely at all from these, either in the substance 

 of its composition or the position. In the latter part of August, they 

 appeared to forsake the pine woods entirely, and then become more widely 

 diffused ; being found to some extent in the deciduous trees along the 

 streams, but by far the larger number inhabit the oak groves, where their 

 habits are much the same as in early summer, except that they are now 

 expert flycatchers. By the end of September, all had apparently passed 

 beyond our limits. 



X.i. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



5'i 

 717 



71S 



67 

 6S 

 96 



'63 

 165 

 164 



177 



178 



180 



180A 



4°9 



43° 



501 



502 



503 



9 ad. 

 $ ad. 



ad. 

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id. 



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 9jun. 

 9jun. 

 <£jun. 

 9jun. 

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Camp Apache, Ariz 



Twenty miles south of 

 Camp Apache, Ariz. 



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Willow Spring, Ariz.. . 



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Rock Canon, Ariz 



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Bowie Agency, Ariz... 



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Camp Crittenden, Ariz. 



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Date. 



Aug. 4, 

 Sept. 8, 



1873 

 1873 



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July 12, 1S74 



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July 20, 1S74 

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July 21, 1S74 



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Aug. 15, 1S74 

 Aug. 17, 1S74 

 Aug. 26, 1S74 



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Aug. 27, 1S74 



Collector. 



H. W. Henshaw 

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J. M. Rutter 



II. W. Henshaw. 



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Wing. 



4.05 

 4. IO 



4. II 

 4- 03 

 3-S4 

 4-15 

 4-23 

 4.0S 

 4.07 

 3-S 5 

 4.17 

 3-87 

 4.07 



3-77 

 3-87 

 4. 10 

 3. S3 

 4.13 

 4. 10 



Tail. 



3-°5 

 3-53 



3-3^ 

 3-35 

 3-i3 

 3-45 

 3-47 

 3-48 

 3-3S 

 3-23 

 3.62 



3-45 

 3-5° 

 3-53 

 3-48 

 3.60 



3-43 

 3-5° 

 3.62 



Bill. 



0.6S 

 0.67 



0.6S 

 0.65 

 o. 72 

 0.68 

 o-73 

 o-73 

 o. 70 

 o. 70 

 o. 72 

 o. 72 



0.65 



°-73 

 c-73 

 0.77 

 0.6S 

 0. 67 

 o-73 



Tarsus. 



O.83 



0.S7 



0.S5 

 0.85 

 0.87 

 o. 90 

 o. 85 

 0.92 

 o. 90 

 o. 87 

 0.90 

 0.92 

 0.85 

 o. 92 

 o. 82 

 o. 90 

 0.S8 

 o 94 

 0.82 



