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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
ber on the way back to Washington, D. C., Henshaw crossed New Mexico, going to 
Fort Craig on the Rio Grande, thence up the river to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, 
and by way of Raton Pass, to Pueblo, Colorado. Many notes were made of the 
birds seen on this trip and especially of the water birds along the Rio Grande. No 
special report was printed on the collections of this year, but they are included and 
specified in Wheeler’s Rep. Geog. and Geol. Expl. and Surv. West 100th Mer., V, 
Chap. Ill, 1875, in which the bird notes occupy pages 133-507 under the heading: 
Report upon the Ornithological Collections Made in Portions of Nevada, Utah, 
California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the Years 1871, 1872, 1873, 
and 1874. 
Between July 18 and October 28, 1883, Henshaw and Nelson made large collec¬ 
tions in the mountains about 45 miles east of Santa Fe. Their headquarters were 
on the Pecos River at Wilks, at an altitude of 7,800 feet. Their combined notes were 
published by Henshaw as: List of Birds Observed in Summer and Fall on the Upper 
Pecos River, New Mexico (Auk, II, pp. 326-333, 1885, and III, pp. 73-80, 1886). 
The same locality was visited in 1903 by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bailey and some of 
their records were published by Mrs. (F. M.) Bailey as: Additional Notes on the Birds 
of the Upper Pecos (Auk, XXI, pp. 349-363, 1904). 
1874-1876. Charles Edward Howard Aiken (1850- ). 
The summer of 1874 was spent by Aiken in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, as a 
collector for the Wheeler Survey. He spent two weeks at Pagosa Springs, September 
5-21, and during that time made a short trip across the line into New Mexico, to what 
he called the “Gallinas Mountains,” but he probably did not reach the range 40 
miles south of the border now known by that name. No separate report seems to 
have been made on the specimens collected in New Mexico. During May and June 
two years later Aiken crossed northwestern New Mexico from Raton Pass to Zuni, 
on his way from Colorado to Arizona, returning in September. Many birds were 
collected, winch were reported upon in Vol. V, Chap. Ill, Zoologv, Expl. and Surv. 
W. of the 100th Meridian, 1875. 
1875-1876. Frank Stephens (1849- ) 
Stephens worked in New Mexico from March, 1875, to September, 1876. 
He 
entered the State by the Mosca Pass, Colorado, driving “through Taos, Santa Fe, 
Albuquerque along the Rio Grande across to the Mimbres to Fort Bavard” doing a 
little bird collecting along the way. He did “scarcely any work in the plains,” work- 
so g onT7f y oT ? T mtainS n ° rth ° f F ° rt Bayard >” and spending “a month or 
roonrH« he \ 5 l™™ SllVGr Clty the 8prin Z of 1876.” He published his 
fBull d N U N n ni f nr BirdS 0bscrved in Ngw Mexico and Arizona in 1876 
Now M ?n n i T 1 r; m ’ PP * 92 ' 94 ’ 187S) ' and ^sting of Buteo tonocercus in 
i\ew Mexico (Ibid., IV, p. 189, 1879). 
1882. Charles Foster Batchelder (1856- ). 
From December 4 to 23, 1882, Batchelder was at Las Vegas Hot Springs New 
co, and during this time made careful observations of the birds in the im¬ 
mediate vicinity of the Springs. His notes were published as: Winter Notes from 
New Mexico (Auk, II, pp. 121-128, 233-230, and 306, 1885). 
1883-1884. Charles H. Marsh. 
ber^S^nnm T he hl t:r in th , e imraediatc ™ty of Silver City from Novem- 
^ f ^ These were published as: 
Silver City (Ora. and Ool., IX, pp. 72-74, 126-127, 1884). In early Septem- 
