14° Brewster on a Collection of Arizona Birds. 
narrow and several shades lighter in color. Compared with eastern ex- 
amples they of course present an even greater contrast. Dr. Coues was 
undoubtedly right in saying (Birds of the Colorado Valley, p. 327) that 
pileolatus “is not confined to the Pacific coast region”; but I cannot agree 
with him in thinking it an inconstant form. On the contrary, I find its 
characters, as proposed by Mr. Rid g way, so well maintained that any one 
of my western birds can be separated at a glance when placed in a series 
of twenty-one specimens from the Atlantic States. 
221, $ ad., Cienega Station, April 17. Length, 4.70; extent, 6.80; 
wing, 2.17; tail, 2.23; width of bill below nostrils,' .12. “Iris brown; bill 
dark above, pale brown below. Common here in willows and underbrush 
along streams.” 
257 , $ ad., Tucson, April 21. Length, 4.90; extent, 7; wing 2.27; tail, 
2.30; width of bill below nostrils, .12. 
44. Setophaga picfca Swains , Painted Redstart. — 
During the past season this beautiful species was met with only 
among the Chiricahua and Santa Rita Mountains, but in 1876 
Mr. Stephens found it in New Mexico, a Territory from which I 
believe it has not previously been reported. In the Chiricahua 
Mountains it was not uncommon after March 21, and many spec- 
imens were taken near Morse’s Mill, at an elevation of fully 
seven thousand feet. They occurred most numerously among 
pines, in a canon where they had been previously observed in 
April, 1880. This experience, it will be observed, differs some- 
what from that recorded by Mr. Henshaw, who says: *Tt -ap- 
pears not to inhabit the high mountains nor the extreme lowlands, 
but to occupy an intermediate position, and to find the rocky 
hills covered with a sparse growth of oak most congenial to its 
habits.” 
In the Santa Rita Mountains, where it was rather common in 
May. Mr. Stephens had the good fortune to find its previously 
unknown nest and eggs. The nest, which is now before me, is 
large, flat and shallow. It is composed of bark, coarse fibres 
from weed-stalks, and fine, bleached grasses, the latter, with a 
few hairs, forming a simple lining. The cup measures 2.10 in- 
ches in width by 1 inch in depth ; while the external diameter of 
the whole structure is rather more than 5 inches, and its depth 
about 1.50. The eggs, which were three in number, measure 
respectively .64XA 1 » .64X-5° : ant ^ -66X-49- They are clear, 
dead white, delicately spotted with light reddish-brown, the mark- 
ings being sparsely distributed over the general surface of the 
egg, and handsomely wreathed about its larger end. Neither nest 
