In thfi Qiiirleahua fountains daring l&t« fall and winter the birds 
ease down into the foothills to an altitade of between 5,000 and 5,500 
feet though earlier they were confined to the higher basins* 
The birds were Tery noisy and their oomlng was heralded by their 
than a mile* said to show much fear of haws:s {though it eeems 
strange that a bird with so powerful a bill and so muscular a body should 
show such fear) so that when a red- tail or a hmk. of so me other species 
appeared they rose in floeics and circled in the air doubling thelk' vol- 
ume of* their ordinary screeching calls* 
^ August when the birds first appeared in Pinery Ounyon, Mr* 
HandiS stated that he was certain from their pioma^ that many of them 
were young that had been hatched that year* At tois season when thejj 
hiusds \fere feeding on ^ine oones the feathers of brsast and bead wsre 
often smeared with pitch* 1 inive examined several speol^ns talcen at 
this time in w ieh the feathers were very dirty from this cause* 
In feeding the large bands usually broita up into smaller parties. 
In winter such flocks at tl^aes cume down to perch on broken sandstone 
ledges where they clambered about or basked in the sun* In Hacker 
Canyon toward evening flocks often flew down to the river to drink be- 
fore pausing on to their roost* 
In Pinery Canyon according to the host information available 
about seventy-five or possibly one hundred parrots were killed* Pro- 
bably half of these foiand their way into collectdons of bird skins 
while the roisainder were sent to Chandler Bros*, in SI Bast, and Colburn, 
LOS Angeles, (Taxidanalsts) . m Huckar Canyon where the birds were 
