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Volome XIV 
MarcK- April, 1912 
Number 2 
A WEEK AFIEED IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA 
By F. C. WILLARD 
WITH SEVT'IN PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR 
A S DISTANT fields look the greenest, so the giant mesqnites and 
sahuaros in the vicinity of Tucson seemed more inviting than the for- 
ests of the Huachuca Mountains where I was collecting rather 
unsuccessfully at the time. Consequently, on May 20. 1911, I set out with 
my Mexican moso, George. We left Berner’s in Ramsay Canyon at six a. m. 
and, as the machine ran well, were thirty-two miles on our journey by nine 
o’clock in spite of some very rough going. At this point a defective trans- 
mission gear broke and we began repairs. 1 will not inflict on the reader the 
way we passed the balance of the day. A sixteen mile walk, a luckily found 
telephone and some accommodating friends from Tombstone furnished a new 
gear and at 7 :30 that evening we were on our way once more. 
W’e had had little chance to look for birds but saw a few. Scorched 
Horned Larks {Otocoris alpestris adusta) were very numerous and evidently 
nesting. I saw one carrying grass and found its partially completed nest. While 
walking to secure assistance I also found a nest of the White-necked Raven 
{Corvus cryptolenciis) containing seven fresh eggs. The nest was placed in a 
tall yucca standing out on the mesa. Farther on I encountered some full grown 
young Western Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus pallesccns) in a grove of giant 
cottonwoods. They appeared to have been raised in an old hawk’s nest in the top 
of one of the trees. Here I also met the Vermilion Flycatcher { Pyrocephaliis 
riibinus me. vie anus) , Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cincrascens) , Lucy 
Warbler {b^ermivora liiciae) , Sonora Yellow Warbler (Dendroica aestiva soiwr- 
ana). Western Kingbird (Tyranuns verticalis ) , Say Phoebe (Sayornis sayiis). 
White-winged Dove (Melopelia asiatica) , Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macroura 
carolinensis) , Mexican Ground Dove (ChaemcpcUa p. pallesccns) , and Desert 
Sparrovv Hawk (Falco sparverins phalaena) . 
