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that might confidently be expected to occur there. No nighthawks of the Chor- 

 deiles virginianus group were observed, though C. v. henry n is known to breed at 

 the same altitude in other parts of the state. The absentee whose defection was 

 most unexpected, though, was the Audubon Warbler (Dendroica auduboni). Not 

 one was seen, in mountains affording many miles of apparently ideal surround- 

 ings for the species. This section is debatable territory between the ranges of D. 

 a. nigrifrons to the southward and D. a. auduboni to the northward, and birds 

 occurring in the region might be expected to illustrate intergradation between 

 the two. It would be a most unexpected development should further exploration 

 in central Arizona fully demonstrate what seems to be indicated here — a hiatus 

 where neither form of the species occurs. My visit to the Sierra Ancha was too 

 brief to warrant any sweeping statements of this nature, but the fact remains 

 that in a sojourn of nearly three weeks amid favorable surroundings not one Au- 

 dubon Warbler was seen, and it is a species with notes and actions sufficiently 

 conspicuous to advertise its presence. 



Additional species presenting points of special interest are listed below. 



Dryobates pubescens homorus. Batchelder Woodpecker. Four or five seen 

 in the Sierra Ancha, all in walnuts or maples along the streams. This can hardly 

 be regarded as a new locality record, for Mearns (Auk, vn, 1890, p. 252) found 

 the species breeding in the Mogollons, of which the Sierra Ancha are a southern 

 off -shoot, but it has been seen at so few points in Arizona as to make any oc- 

 currence worth reporting. 



Antrostomus vocif erus macromystax. Stephens Whip-poor-will. At Carr 's 

 Ranch on the evening of July 1, a whip-poor-will was heard calling repeatedly. 

 The species has not been reported heretofore from north of the Graham Moun- 

 tains. 



Myiarchus magister magister. Arizona Crested Flycatcher. Seen in small 

 numbers about Tempe, at Roosevelt Lake, and north to the base of the Sierra 

 Ancha. It has not been previously noted this far north in this section of the 

 state. All the birds seen were in the neighborhood of giant cactus, and the range 

 of the species in Arizona is probably co-extensive with that of this plant. 



Icterus parisorum. Scott Oriole. An adult male was seen from the stage a 

 few miles east of Fish Creek station, between Tempe and Roosevelt. At this point 

 the hills were well covered with agaves, an association frequently favored by this 

 oriole. One or two others were seen or heard about Roosevelt Lake. The Scott 

 Oriole has not before been noted this far north in central Arizona. 



Loxia curvirostra bendirei. Bendire Crossbill. Two specimens, adult fe- 

 males, taken at Carr's Ranch, Sierra Ancha, June 16. Crossbills reported from 

 Arizona heretofore have all been of the Mexican subspecies, L. c. stricMandi, but 

 these two individuals are unmistakably the smaller-billed Rocky Mountain form. 

 They were evidently not breeding. 



Spizella atrogularis. Black-chinned Sparrow. Found in the Sierra Ancha, 

 breeding in small numbers at from 5000 to 6000 feet altitude. As elsewhere, the 

 birds were here frequenting hot, brushy hillsides, where the loud, characteristic 

 song of the males gave unfailing evidence of their presence. There are but two 

 previously reported summer stations for this species in Arizona, Fort Whipple, 

 and the Hualpai Mountains. 



Junco phaeonotus dorsalis. Red-backed Junco. A very few juncos, not 

 more than three or four in all, were seen about the summit of Aztec Peak, Sierra 

 Ancha, where one specimen, an adult female, was taken June 26. This bird, in 



