26 Brewster on a Collection of Arizona Birds. [January 



can also rise into a tree b}- taking a rnnning start and then sail- 

 ing on spread wings. They do not attempt any real flight, how- 

 ever. Their food includes lizards, snakes, grasshoppers, beetles, 



etc." 



456, $ ad., Camp Lowell, May 31. Length, 23.10; extent, 21.50. 

 "Iris dark brown with a narrow light-yellow ring next the pupil ; bill 

 dull brownish-black; feet pale bluish; scutella of tarsi dull yellowish; 

 bare space on sides of head, dull blue about the eye, whitish for a small 

 space behind the eye, and still farther back, red with a yellowish tinge." 



135. Coccygus americanus {Lhtn.) Bonap. Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoo. 



!;i3, $ £td., Tucson, June 8. Length, 12.60; extent, 17; wing, 6; tail, 

 6.57; culmen, 1.13. "Iris brown ; legs dark greenish-brown; bare orbi- 

 tal space much the color of the surrounding feathers. This is the first 

 specimen that I have seen in Arizona." 



527, $ ad., Tucson, June 12. Length, 12.30; extent, 16.70; wing, 5.94; 

 tail, 6.47 ; culmen. 1.13. "Two others seen to-day." 



136. Scops asio trichopsis? ( W'agl.^ Brewster. Mexican 

 Screech Owl. 



The specimens catalogued below are unmistakably referable 

 to the so-called trichopsis* of our South-western border, 

 a form which, as I have lately stated, grades into asio through 

 the California race bendirii. There is a doubt, however, as to 

 whether Mr. Ridgway's trichopsis is really the trichopsis of 

 Wagler, and this question, I believe, still remains vn.isettled. Mr. 

 Henshaw's Arizona specimens were referred to fnaccalli., but 

 as that race is now restricted, within the United States, to the 

 Vallev of the Lower Rio Grande, in Texas, they probably belong 

 here. 



488, 5 ad.. Camp Lowell, June 3. Length, 8; extent, 21.20; wing, 

 5.52; tail, 3.20. 'Tris yellow; bill black, paler at tip ; toes pale. Parent 

 of the next." 



489, 5 juv., first plumage, same locality and date. "Shot by moonlight 

 ainong low mesquites. Call-note a kind oi chuck, diflferent from anything 

 that I have previously heard. There were others, probablj^ the remainder 

 of the brood, but after I had shot the parent they remained silent. 



137. Bubo virginianus subarctictis {Hoy) Ridgxv. West- 

 ern Horned Owl. — The female of the pair mentioned below 

 was shot as she flew from her nest, which was built in a mesquite 

 at a height of about fifteen feet. It contained a recently hatched 

 bird and one addled egg. The latter measures 3.i5Xi-75- 



*See this Bulletin, Vol. VII, p. 32. 



