most nuffloroBS not moro tban half a dosea were destroyed: these vere 
jellied by hunters through ouriosity* 
Though parrots apparently remained throeigh the summer In the 
Gallnro nange, whether they bred there or not Is uncertain* From 
arallable accounts the birds In Mexico nest usually In abandoned uest> 
ing holds of the Imperial voodpeeinr ( Oampeohilua Imoarialls 1 » ihiit- 
able nesting eavitles for these parrots could he found In large pines 
In our mauntains but ara not common. The date of arriral of the Thick* 
billed parrot In 1917 seems remrJcaoly early as Thayer * records nests 
*Auky 190d, pp. £23-224* 
«iidi i ss>iiwiMewmw>».*eMf n i i<iiBssMie<e»msi*»ess»s»es»weat>mw>>ise><w^ vw. ■■* n - mm n u sm-- * m a^ees n iiies i w n i*i M iee*i<gsw«di<yeiwsMes»eaig»MsM»*^»i»w«twbg»»<i»swiiwa»mi»|imwBeieiBiaiMw^ 
containing eggs or small young near Golonia paehaoho and Colonla Barela* 
Chihuahua fr(»a August 11 to August 23, 1905 and Sergtold * secured partly 
*luk, 1903, pp* 423. 
fledged young near parral on Oct* 5, 1904. From these dates It would 
seam, that there is. aom variation In the time of nesting, as the parrots 
arrived la the Chlrloahuas at a time when they had been breeding during 
other years* 
i^cordlng to local accounts seems that the present Invasion of 
parrots is the largest and most 3X|l!mdsd of which there is any record* 
In 1904 a small number came in 4;i^ing late suvsier and ranged on Turlcey 
Creek canyon above Paradise {oh the eastern slope) and on Cave Creek 
Canyon* According to A* P*/ Jmlth * they were observed In Bonita Park 
/ 
•Condor, 1907, p. 104. 
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near Cochise Head In^ugust, 1904. others were reported in 1902 accord- 
,r ^ 
Ing to 0# 0* Duifnor of Paradise# The species was first definitely re- 
