a Strang® noise snd, stepping to the door identified it oe the cell- 
ing of parrots, a sound that he had heard in other /ears. To verify 
his identlfioations he followed the sound and found six or eight of 
the birds feeding in a pine over a mile sway, proa this date the num- 
ber of parrots in Pinery O&nyon incroasad steadily until by September 
1, about 300 ware present. As cold v^eather caae on during fall a pert 
of the birds disappeared. Others remained daring the entire winter 
although at one tiiae the ground was covered by six inches of snow for 
over two mem and the birds were forced to saak their focd on the ground 
where this covoriag had blown partly away. The last were observed in 
Pinery Canyon on ^roh 26 or 27, 1918 when & flooJc of tan or twelve was 
seen. The birds ranged bej?® in pinery end pine Canyons and to a less 
extend in Bonita Canyon. According to 0. 0. Puffnar of fsradise. none 
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were found in the canyons leading down oa the as stern side at the north 
end of the Chiric-uhua range. 
In icuoxsr Canyon Thick-joilled Parrots ware more abundant. Accor- 
ding to Theodor® Haiapa the first arrived during the first week in July, 
1917 (si* weeks previous' to their errival in f inery Ganyoii). A flock 
of fifty or sixty were noted first and the birds Increased steadily un- 
til by early fall one thousand or possibly one thousand five hundred e# 
the^-^rdir were present. They ranged oa— the~elef*» above the Junction of 
Kucker and WhiteAwater rivers, covering tl» high slopes of aonte Tista. 
Though the birds were at Harape's Haneh at the Junction of the two rivers 
mentioned above early in July, Fred Heine who lived a mile below did not 
observe tAea at his place tmtll late in August although the difference 
in altitude between the two points was slight. The birds remained throu^- 
out the winter though they wandered much and occasionally were not observed 
