for ^ a tJUuo* llovenibisir ii^croa&ad aoua^hat in 
number but a few remained throui^ until Ilaioh« l>ld* 
The birds were said to range into I'rlce Caa;y^oii on ibe eastern 
side o! tbe range but were not reported otber nearby localities^ 
in the Dragoon fountains !»• ’ialn informed .120 that a considerable 
flocio of parrots arrived in Oochise Stronghold aanyon about the end of 
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July or tl» iirst of jiUgu&t i.a<i rotaaineo lor aboit six Wiaelca. Theao 
birsis «ere obaorved to lly ulreetiy out across tho flats to tbs east and 
to return at night so that It Is possible that they laay here crossed 
to the Chiricahaa aountains to feed. iir. l^la kill ad one and nailed 
it on the wall of a shed where It was exaiainaii bjr savai-al paraona who 
told m of it. *his specimen fceae-aeer had boan burned a few moatha pre- 
vious to my visit. 
Mr. T. jwlit, forest buparvisor of the arook lational Forest, at 
daffordvArlaona told me that in 1918 one of his rsngers reported parrots 
in hattleanake lanyon at the northern and of the Galluro Mountains west 
of the drabaB BangQ. About one huudred and fifty &£--t h e. ■ ■h .i rito appeored 
about the middle of May and maalned through the suinmer until early fall. 
She birds ruagod here in an area covered with new growth Ygiiow pine. 
btookmoQ had also reported to Mr. Swift that in former years 
parrots had appeared occasionally in the southern end of the Graham 
mountains. 
K. Winkler who resides near the mouth of Hacker Canyon said that 
parrots had been seen by his son above Beer Creek on Animas Peak in 
south W'jstera Sew Mexico. 
According to newspaper report parrots were found by Fred Miller 
near Mowry in Santa Crus County, Arisona in September 1917. John Beegen 
