Arizona: Phoenix, isaricopa Co. 
Doves; Eoononiio# June 20 to 22, 1916. 
A. B. Ho^rell. 
Information was obtained on the djiiaag® to crops by the doves of this 
region, from interviev/s with about fifty men. In Phoenix 1 taliced with sx^ort- 
goods and hardware dealers, professional and huslrioss men wlx) hunt doves, 
superintendents (2) of large tracts of farming land, a crop specialist, the 
in charge of the water supply and. crop reports of 200,000 acres?; the de- 
puty ^^6 wa-rden, imd many ranchers. She twenty first ?/as extent in Phoenix, 
talking to the laeri^ there, and in shooting 19 Mourning doves. The £2nd, in 
going from farm to farm , interviewing the o’OT.©rs, deductions are Bxm- 
aarized from all information obtained* 
Melouella arrives in numbers the latter part of April . They then 
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feed cn til© sqaw-berry, gro¥mi 2 ig on thB desert and later on a small blaclc 
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fruit growin^j on a desert shsrub until wheat and barley begdn to when 
they com© to th© fields in coimtless thousands* As soon as the fruits o.f the 
salmaros are read^/ to eat (now)^ they forsalse the ranches almost ©ntirelyt 
and do not return until the grains of the various sorghums begin to rixien* 
They are especially fond of feterita and fairly crasy over it#*‘ This 
they feed on until they leave > the first hall of September* The ^^fhit ©wings*' 
are more grei^rious than the mourning doves ^ amd more spectacular inthe 
damage done* Although they are conceded to be less humerous than the latter* 
they are blamed (ai 3 d wrongfully# 1 believe) for the greater amount of d£^- 
a/»e* One district on a lino of flight# will be over-run with them# and here 
they may cause a vast amount of damage, while there will be comparatively few 
in another district. This species is acct^ed of being very wasteful, des- 
