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THE CONDOR 
| Von. VII 
spot was reached no bird was in sight, and a little later it would again be heard 
calling far off to one side. We persevered, occasionally catching a glimpse of a 
small bird flitting through the tree tops, and finally Mr. Stephens fired and picked 
up what proved to be a full grown juvenile. While examining this bird, the 
peculiar, twittering note was again heard on both sides, and we again started in 
pursuit. I followed my bird in vain for a long time, and finally prepared to give it 
up; but, while standing behind a thick bush, two of the birds darted over me and 
lit close by, w'here one could be seen feeding the other The young bird left 
almost immediately, and I fired and killed what proved to be an adult male. This 
ended our flycatcher hunt, for we neither saw nor heard them again. Those we 
saw were probably a single pair with their brood. 
They are birds that it would be exceedingly easy to overlook, since they are 
small and dull colored, and keep in the tops of the tallest trees as well; while, 
judging from those we saw, they would seem to be exceedingly shy and hard to 
approach. It was within a few miles of where w'e shot these birds that Mr. 
Stephens secured the type specimens in i S 8 1 ; and I can find no record of the 
capture of any others since that time. I have looked for them in vain in other 
parts of Arizona. 
Corvus c. sinuatus. American Raven. An adult male in very fine plum- 
age was shot by Mr. Stephens; several others were seen. 
Corvus cryptoleucus. White-necked Raven. Very common; seen mostly in 
the open pastures. Nearly all that were seen seemed to be moulting, and were 
exceedingly disreputable in appearance. 
Molothrus a. obscurus. Dwarf Cowbird. Exceedingly common all through 
the mesquite forest. 
Agelaius phoeniceus subsp? Red-winged Blackbird. A few red-wings were seen 
on one or two occasions flying about over the Indians’ grain fields, but none were 
secured. Some breeding birds I secured on the San Pedro River were identified 
by Mr. Ridgeway as neutrolis , so those seen on the Santa Cruz may have been of 
this variety, or sonoriensis. 
Icterus c. nelsoni. Arizona Hooded Oriole. Exceedingly common; breeding 
everywhere in the mesquite forest. 
Icterus bullocki. Bullock Oriole. Not nearly so common as the last. 
Chondestes g. strigatus. Western Lark Sparrow. One or two pairs were 
seen about the edges of the mesquites; they are not at all common in this region. 
Amphispiza b. deserticola. Desert Sparrow. Very common everywhere on 
the open, brush-covered mesas. A few were seen about the edges of the mes- 
quites, but none in the thick forests. 
Pipilo f. mesoleucus. Canyon Towhee. Fairly common and breeding in the 
big mesquites. 
Pipilo aberti. Abert Towhee. Breeds in limited numbers in the mesquite 
forests. It is not nearly so abundant as the last, and the birds are so shy and re- 
tiring that they are hard to catch sight of. 
Cardinalis c. superbus. Arizona Cardinal. In 1902 I saw a good many car- 
dinals in the mesquites, but in 1903 they seemed to be almost entirely absent, the 
only one observed being a single male bird. 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata. Arizona Pyrrhuloxia. Fairly common, and often heard 
singing about the camp. A nest with three eggs was found built in a scraggly 
mesquite bush at the edge of an Indian field. The nest was not concealed at all 
and I saw the female fly to it when still a long way off. Both birds stayed around 
