280 RED-FACED WARBLER. 
in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, at an elevation of fully 7,000 feet. They appear 
most numerously among pines. In the Santa Rita Mountains, where it was rather 
common in May, Mr. Stephens had the good fortune to find a third nest of this bird, 
under a projecting stone, in a bank near a small stream. The nest was composed of 
bark, coarse fibres from weed-stalks, and fine, bleached grasses, the latter, with a few 
hairs, forming a simple lining. The eggs are described by Mr. Brewster as clear dead 
white, delicately spotted with light reddish-brown, the markings being sparsely distri- 
buted over the general surface of the egg, and handsomely wreathed about the larger 
end. 
Mr. W. E. D. Scott found this bird common in the higher regions of the,oak belt 
and throughout the pine region in the neighborhood of Las Sierras de Santa Catalina, 
Pima County, Arizona. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘Head, neck, chest, sides, and upper parts, glossy blue-black; the wing with a large white 
patch, covering greater and middle coverts and edges of tertials; no chestnut or rufous on top of 
head; -breast and belly, rich carmine-red; lower eyelid and under tail-coverts, pure white. 
“Length about 5.00 to 5.50 inches; wing, 2.70 to 2.82; tail, 2.35 to 2.78 inches.” (R. Ridgway.) 
RED-BELLIED REDSTART, Setophaga miniata Swans. This bird is an inhabitant of 
the highlands of Mexico, north to southern Texas. There is nothing known about its 
breeding habits in our territory. 7 
RED-FACED WARBLER. 
Cardellina rubrifrons ScLATER. 
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la THE mountain regions of Central America and Mexico north to southern Arizona 
this beautiful little Warbler seems to be a more or less frequent summer sojourner. 
It is one of Mr. J. P. Giraud’s “Sixteen Species,” alleged to have been procured in Texas. 
Only recently its occurrence in the United States has been confirmed, when the bird was 
rediscovered by Mr. Henshaw in southern Arizona. He found these Warblers at two 
points about a hundred miles apart,—on Mount Graham. and near Camp Apache. They 
proved to be common birds on Mount Graham, where flocks of ten or fifteen were not 
unusual among the pines and spruces. They frequented these trees almost exclusively, 
only rarely being seen on the bushes that fringed the streams. This was in the first 
days of August, 1874. The habits of the RED-FACED WARBLER “are a rather strange 
compound, now resembling those of Warblers, again recalling the Redstarts, but more 
often perhaps bringing to mind the less graceful motions of the familiar Titmice. Their 
favorite haunting places appeared to be the extremities of the limbs of the spruces, over 
the branches of which they passed with quick motion, and a peculiar and constant 
sidewise jerk of the tail. When thus engaged, especially when high overhead, they might 
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