BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
vol. vii. April/ 1882. No. 2. 
ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS LATELY MADE 
BY MR. F. STEPHENS IN ARIZONA. 
BY WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
Early in 1881 I wrote to Mr. Stephens asking him to get me 
some Arizona birds during the following spring and summer. 
He replied that he was on the point of starting by wagon for 
California, but that being provided with a camping outfit, and 
feeling under no necessity of hurrying by the way, he was willing 
to give his whole attention, for several months at least, to collect- 
ing in my interest. It was accordingly arranged that the journey 
should take in as great a. variety of country as possible, and, that 
the most productive points should be thoroughly worked. The 
energy, intelligence, and conscientiousness with which this plan 
was carried out are sufficiently, attested by the material results 
upon which the present paper is based. 
The route traversed was substantially as follows : Leaving 
Galeyville on March 3, Mr. Stephens drove southward to Cave 
Creek, where a few days’ collecting yielded a limited number of 
birds. At the end of this time he retraced his steps to Galeyville, 
and continuing northward, passed Camp Bowie, and crossed to 
the western side of the Chiricahua Mountains. Here a halt was 
made at Morse’s Mill, after a journey of seventy miles by wagbn- 
road from Cave Creek, although the distance is less than twelve 
