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Brewster on a Collection of Arizona Birds. 
[January 
had “innumerable eggs of some parasite between the muscle and 
skin on the upper side of the wings.” 
129. Centurus uropygialis Baird. Gila Woodpecker. — 
One of the four specimens obtained during the past season is 
accompanied by the following notes. “Nine miles east of Tomb- 
stone, April 8. This point is the furthest east that I have seen 
this Woodpecker. I did not find it on the upper Gila. The 
present specimen was among oaks and walnuts which were spar- 
ingly distributed along an arroya. They usually frequent mes- 
quites or giant cactuses, but the latter are wanting here and the 
mesquite is only a low shrub.” The remaining three skins were 
taken June 1 and 2, at Camp Lowell. 
Juv. , first flumage^ 5 (No. 477, Camp Lowell. June 2). Crown with 
faint transverse vermiculations of dull brown. The white of the back 
and wings tinged with smoky-brown. Abdomen reddish-saffron. Other- 
wise like adult of the same sex. 
130. Melanerpes formicivonis bairdi Ridgw. Califor- 
nian Woodpecker. — Found only among the Chiricahua Moun- 
tains where a few specimens were taken about the middle of March. 
“In Arizona and New Mexico I have never seen acorns buried 
in the bark of trees by this bird, as is its common practice in 
California. Otherwise there is little difference in their habits in 
the two regions.” 
One of the Arizona examples — a female — has nearly the whole of 
the black pectoral crescent streaked with white, thus showing an approach 
to certain more southern races. 
131. Colaptes auratus mexicanus (6w.) Ridgw. Red- 
shafted Flicker. 
ii 5, $ ad., Chiricahua Mountains, March 26. Length, 12.90; extent, 
20.90. “Iris dark brown. Stomach contained ants. Common here but 
invariably shy.” This specimen has a few red feathers on the nape. 
132. Colaptes chrysoides ( Malh .) Baird. Malherbe’s 
Flicker. — Mr. Stephens regards the distribution of this species 
in Arizona as coextensive with that of the giant cactus, for he 
has never seen it excepting where this singular . plant grows. In 
coming from California by the Mohave route, in 1880, the first 
cactuses were met with on the Big Sandy River, a tributary of 
the Bill Williams River, and C. chrysoides was there observed 
for the first time. During the past season the birds were found 
in moderate numbers both at Tucson and Camp Lowell. Their 
notes were indistinguishable from those of C. mexicanus , and in 
a general way their habits were much the same. They were 
