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was found feeding about a small snow bank. There was strong suggestion that the three 
birds constituted part of a family reared in the immediate vicinity. The date was July 
ts, 1919. 
I was surprised also to find on two occasions the Western Gnatcatcher (Polioptila 
caerulea obscura) at timber line on Mount Tallac. Nine thousand feet is pretty well up 
for this species, commonly considered Sonoran. 
I was further interested to obtain a specimen of the Western Redtail (Butco bore- 
alis calurus) in the timber of a deep canyon, and to find in its crop the remains of a full 
grown Douglas Chickaree “(Sciwrus douglasi albolimbatus). The Chickaree is seldom 
seen in the open. He is almost limited to the denser timber. My concept of the Red- 
tailed Hawk was that he is a plainsman—a bird of the open country feeding upon the 
ground squirrel and the jack rabbit. To take the Douglas Chickaree must have re- 
quired a quickness of wing action not generally conceded to this rather heavy hawk.— 
Love Mituer, Southern Branch, University of California, Los Angeles, January 26, 1920. 
Some Winter Birds at the Grand Canyon, Arizona.—Although the Grand Canyon 
is visited each year by thousands of sight-seers, there has been almost nothing published 
about the birds of that region. This may be, perhaps, because of the all engrossing 
scenic attractions, causing even the most confirmed bird lover to abandon his hobby for 
the time being, or because of the relative scarcity of bird life. However that may be, 
there seems to have been but one paper published upon this subject, a “List of birds 
noted at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, September 10 to 15, 1889”, by C. 
Hart Merriam (U.S. Dept. Agric., North American Fauna no. 3, 1890, pp. 38-41). 
The present authors spent three days at the Grand Canvon, December 18-20, 1919. 
Although our time was short we covered as much ground and of as great variety as 
could well be done in that period. We arrived early in the morning of the 18th. That 
afternoon, through the courtesy of Mr. W. F. Peters, Acting Superintendent of the Grand 
Canyon National Park, we were enabled to join a party he was conducting into the Can- 
yon. We descended the Hermit’s Rest Trail to Hermit’s Rest Camp, where we spent the 
night. The next day we rode some nineteen miles up the Canyon on the Tonto Trail, to 
the junction of the latter with the Bright Angel Trail, by which we returned to El Tovar. _ 
Our last day was devoted to walks along the rim. : 
Early in the morning of the 18th there had been a rainstorm, but before noon the 
sky cleared and it remained clear during the rest of our stay. On the rim the tempera- 
ture fell below freezing at night, but the snow melted in the sun during the day. The 
air was appreciably warmer down in the Canyon. There was considerable snow on the 
ground on the rim, and extending downward into the Canyon over the first mile or so 
of the trail. 
Astur atricapillus atricapillus. Eastern Goshawk. An adult bird seen December 
18, at close range, at the rim of the Canyon near the Hermit’s Rest Trail. 
Dryobates villosus leucothorectis. White-breasted Woodpecker. A single bird, ob- 
served near El Tovar Hotel, December 20. 
Dryobates scalaris cactophilus. Cactus Woodpecker. A woodpecker was seen De- 
cember 19 on the Tonto Trail, about midway between Hermit’s Rest Camp and the Bright 
Angel Trail, flying from one agave stalk to another. The surroundings and the appear- 
ance of the bird were both so strongly indicative of this species, that although this is no 
more than a “sight identification”, I have no doubt as to its accuracy. There is a record 
from a point still farther northwest in Arizona: confluence of Beaverdam Creek and the 
Virgin River (Fisher, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, p. 47). 
Colaptes cafer collaris. WRed-shafted Flicker. Two or more seen and heard near 
El Tovar Hotel. 
Cyanocitta stelleri diademata. Long-crested Jay. Seen at various points along the 
rim between El Tovar Hotel and the Hermit’s Rest Trail. 
Aphelocoma woodhousei. Woodhouse Jay. Not as numerous as the last mentioned 
species, or at any rate not so conspicuous. Not more than three or four observed. 
Nucifraga columbiana. Clarke Nutcracker. While not abundant, some individuals 
of this species could be seen about the hotel and other buildings at any time. 
Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus. Pinyon Jay. Seen and heard at various points 
