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a valuable collection sent by the “Golden Gate,” on the way 
to Washington, but I happened to reserve the other one, 
about the occurrence of which west of the Rocky Mountains 
there has been some discussion. * 
May 6th, shot the first Blue Grosbeak ( Guiraca coerulea) ; 
Mth, the Blue-headed Greenlet ( Vireo solitariust ), which 
Dr. Coues omits from the birds of Arizona, supposing it to 
be his V. plumbeus, which however is quite distinct, and one 
I did not obtain.t 
May 19th I found a nest of the Yellow-breasted Chat 
containing three eggs, besides one of the parasitic Cow-bird ; 
on the 8th a nest of the House Finch, or Red Linnet ( Car- 
podacus Jrontalis), with eggs, and on the 19th that of the 
Song Sparrow ( Melospiea’ fallax).§ May 20th I first saw 
the Blue Linuet ( Cyanospiza amoena), and shot Hammond's 
and Trails Flycatchers (Empidonax Hammondii and E. 


ee Coues List of Birds of Fort Whipple, Arizona, in * eee of the Phila- 
ps Academy of Natural Science," January, 1800. Com —€—À 2 "i Ibis" 
April, 1865, and July, 1866; Baird on Distribution of Birds, in " eina Journal," and 
my article on Additions to the singes st meng in the “ Proceedings of the Califor- 
Academy of carts IV, iii, N 


i take thia 1 di 41 13 £1 a LS Thi 
these arid regions, j prevails among the m re terrestrial ierit 
the brown, olive r gree nish, in many species also found in moister and a more wooded 

regions vector others, differing in other respects from wies n representatives, 
are considered ac di n Hawk CFalco 
colu limbarius), ) Mottled Owl (eine asio var. Oa sa Hawk (Chordeiles popetue 
var. bom eta Icteria — longicauda, Thriothorus (Bewickii var.?) leucogaster, 
Pow es (gramineu. poke, Melospiza pate yar. ?) fallax, kieres aes 
var. var.) neglecta, and Ground | Dove( Chamepelia pa assering var. pallescens), furnish exa ers 


Maa Species as usually recognized, are the Hare Hawk ( Falco polyogrus), Squirrel Hawk 
(Archibuteo ferru nile mter Whitneyi, Nuttal's Whippoorwill (Antrostomus 
Nuttalli, Western Kingbirds (Tyrannus vociferans and verticalis), Say’s Pewee (Say- 
Ornis Sayus), Empidonaz obscurus, Polioptila plumbea, Graces Warbler (Dendreca 
Gracie Cones) of Fort begs Heimithoage Lucie, Swainson’s Vireo (F. Swain- 

use (Psaltriparus ; 
beus), mmt cud iuis ced omitris Lawrencii), Pal e Snowbird (Junco pon Centena 
Jater tuan at San Diego 
Mone ang as the arrivalof many birds, was from one to two months 
in 1862, 

