ported for tha United ;jtetes b; H* I>* JUtsic (r on the basis of schoolmens 
100. p. 1^9 
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taicen abont the middle of Jwo that year near Sarfoot Peak# Mrlf ^ 
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settlors and residents in this region hud noted them on rarious pre-* 
vions occasions* Mr* F/Eands believed that the birds usually during 
years in which there is a shortage of rain* 
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/ »ry. 
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ittrlng tiie first mek in July, 1917 Thick-billed Parrots wore 
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observed In Euotor Canyon in the Chlricabua Mountains and on August 20 
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they appear^ in Pinery Canyon. The birds increased in number until in 
September 4h^i*re were at least one thousand in the first locality and 
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about thg^e hundred in the second. Others were found in the Dragoon 
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liange./ In the Chirlcahuas the birds remained until the end of March. 
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1918./ 
were found from May until fall, 1918 in the Caliuro Bangs 
west/ of iilondyics. / 
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it was reported that the birds had been of considerable damage 
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to com, lafi'ir com and feterita but upon investigation these were 
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found to oe newspaper stories for which no beisis in actual fact could 
be secured. On their arrival the birds fed on the cones of the Chi- 
huatma Pine. 
ilfc. 
m thBB% were gone they ate the acorns produced 
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by several species of oai^s* Though parrots often came into trees bor- 
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dering clearings containing cultivated fields or orchards there was no 
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record of their feeding upon any product of these crops* Hor did it 
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