May. 1903 I 
THE CONDOR 
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The last time I saw this feathered beauty was on the North Fork of White 
River about twenty miles above Fort Apache. I was cutting a fishing pole from 
some willows on the bank of the stream, which runs through an open pine forest. 
Suddenly as I stepped on a large bunch of wire-grass, I was startled by a pair 
that went roaring up from the other side with the usual speed and clucking. 
From what I have seen, though my observations have not been extensive, I believe 
that the Mogollons and White Mountains mark their northern range in the 
territory. 
Considering the fact that the bird had been well known for so many years, it 
seems strange that the first nest was not discovered until 1890 and was not des- 
cribed until Bendire’s first volume was published in 1892. 
Band-tailed Pigeon. The band-tailed pigeon {Coluniba fasciata) a bird de- 
scribed from a specimen taken at what is now Castle Rock, Colo., cannot be 
called an Arizona bird proper, but is, I think, found in any of the Arizona moun- 
tains where the live oaks or junipers are abundant, as it depends chiefly on these 
trees for its food, and when not restrained by its nesting cares, wanders over the 
mountains following the ever changing supply of berries, acorns and juniper buds. 
In the Huachncas when the wild mulberries were ripe, they would be found 
on the east side of the mountains near the centre of the range. When the juni- 
per buds appeared they were more numerous on the west side, in the Carnielita 
Hills, and when the acorns ripened they scattered over the whole range through 
the oak woods. 
When the breeding season draws near, they betake themselves to sheltered 
places among the lower mountains, and nest in scattered communities, or as I have 
seen in several cases, a pair will nest apart from the others. One of the largest 
breeding communities I noted, was in a little pocket in the mountains, about five 
miles south of Fort Huachuca: this little place was at the head of a short canyon, 
and was indeed an ideal spot for birds, as it was well wooded and watered. Here 
a flock of about thirty-five pairs of band-tails nested in a scattered rookery, pro- 
bably not averaging a nest to every three or four acres at the most thickly popu- 
lated part; and a great majority of the nests were even farther apart than this. 
The nests in this colony were all placed on the forks of low horizontal limbs of live 
oaks usually not more than twelve feet up or less than nine, and in no case did I 
find more than one egg or squab in a nest. The nests were all of that very simple 
dove-like construction consisting of a few sticks placed on a fork of a branch. Not 
all of the birds nested at the same time, as fresh eggs and w'eek-old squabs were 
found on April 16, and two nests containing a fresh egg each were found on May 
9 in this colony. The two cases of pairs nesting outside of colonies, and I do not 
think these cases are unusual, were, first, a nest found on a low limb of a juniper 
in the Carmelitas, containing one egg about a week incubated on the 2nd of April 
1892, and one in a juniper on a steep hill side above Fort Huachuca. 
I believe that the habit of carrying ths eggs off in the feathers, or held be- 
tween the legs, as noted by Mr. O. C. Poling in Bendire’s first volume, requires 
further proof. 
Coppery-tailed TroGON. The coppery-tailed trogon (^Trogon ambigmis) is 
w'ithout a doubt one of the rarest birds that reaches our southern borders, and 
from all present records, it is probable that the center of its abundance within our 
borders is in the Huachuca and neighboring mountains of Arizona. Lieutenant 
Benson of the 4th Cavalry shot an immature male in the Huachucas on August 24 
1885. Several were seen or collected by Mr. Lusk in 1891 and in the same year 
