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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
On September 2, 1902, Bailey, accompanied by Hollister, entered New Mexico 
from the south at the Salt Lakes of the western base of the Guadalupe Mountains and 
traveled by wagon almost due north across the flats and through the foothills up the 
valley of Pinon Creek to Weed in the Sacramento Mountains, reaching there Septem¬ 
ber 5; thence proceeding to Mayhill September 6, Cloudcroft September 7-9, Elk- 
Springs and Mescalero September 10-12, and to Ruidoso September 12-15. On 
September 13, from the camp near Ruidoso he made a horseback trip to the top of 
Sierra Blanca, after which he went down Ruidoso Creek and the Hondo River, 
reaching Roswell, September 17. 
In 1903 a full season was given by the Baileys to New Mexico. After collecting 
at Santa Rosa and vicinity from May 19 to June 9, 1903, where they were joined by 
Alfred Edward Weller, a temporary assistant who remained with them until they 
reached Taos, they started by wagon to the northeastward, collecting near Cuervo, 
June 9-14, camping near Montoya, June 14-20, and exploring to the top of the 
Staked Plains, 1,000 feet higher. Moving camp to a little north of Pajarito Creek- 
on June 20, on June 22 they rode 12 miles northeast to the Canadian River, on 
June 23 proceeding north to the mouth of Cuervo Creek, then west to Cabra Springs, 
and thence north 15 miles, June 25, to the top of Mesa Yegua. They returned to 
Cabra Springs, June 28, west to Gallinas Springs, June 29, and by way of Casous 
and Anton Chico to La Cuesta, June 30, and on to Ribera, July 1. Some of the 
notes on the birds of the plains were published by F. M. Bailey as: Twelve Rock 
Wrens’ Nests in New Mexico (Condor, VI, pp. 68-70, 1904); Scott Oriole, Gray 
Vireo, and Phoebe in Northeastern New Mexico (Auk, XXI, pp. 392-393, 1904); 
Additions to Mitchell’s List of the Summer Birds of San Miguel County, New Mex¬ 
ico (Auk, XXI, pp. 443-449, 1904); Nesting Sites of the Desert Sparrow (Condor, 
. H,06); The Yellow Pincs of Mesa del Agua dc la Yegua (Condor, 
XII, pp. 181 184, 1910); The Oasis of the Llano (Condor, XIII, pp. 43-46, 1911). 
The Baileys’ work in the Pecos Mountains began at Ribera, July 1-3, from 
which point the Pecos River was followed up to a camp between Rowe and Pecos 
City, where a night’s trapping was done, July 3-4. Then the ridge at Glorieta 
was crossed and Santa Fe reached July 5. Returning to Glorieta, they collected 
there July 7-12, and reaching the Pecos River at Pecos City followed the river up 
to its junction with the Rio Mora, where they collected at 8,000 feet July 13-18 
Camp was moved to one mile above Willis at 8,500 feet, and after collecting there 
until July 21, they exchanged their wagons for a pack outfit and made camp, 
July 21 August 7, at 11,000 feet, on the meadows near the head of Jack Creek 
The next move was to the east base of Pecos Baldy near a lake at 11,600 feet, where 
collecting was done, August 7-17, covering the region about Pecos Baldy and the 
ruelias Peaks, a trip also being made by Bailey down the Rio Media on the Rio 
Grande slope, August 1 7.- After returning to the wagons at Willis for two days, they 
collected at the fork of the Pecos and Mora Rivers three days at a camp two miles 
facho, August 21-24, and spent two nights trapping at the old camp 
ground between Pecos and Rowe, after which they made camp at Ribera, August 
26, near Bernal, August 27, and the next day on the edge of Las Vegas, where they 
collected until September 1. Proceeding north they left Las Vegas September 1 
and passed Sapello September 3, Penasco Blanco, Mora, and La Cueva, September 
5, and Guadalupita, September 6. They went up Coyote Creek to Black Lake, 
wood GrovM 6 (Condor, b Xn' 1 8 rm. mf™ publ,ehcd hy F - M - Bailey as: Birds of the Cotton- 
Notes on the Birds of thl Uptor Pmos (Aak^XXRpp 349 - 3 fl 3 b 1904)• *7rf N Bailey as: Additional 
in New Mexico (Condor, VI. pp. 87-8), 1004) Breed,! si’ ’ : & Du * 1 P r Grouse and Her Brood 
39-40, 1905): A Nest of Emv'donax difiiicZ in SSSIconZ vm Condor, VII, pp. 
Northern New Mexico (Auk, XXII, pp. 310-318, 190.5). r ’ ^ ***’ p * 1906); Notes from 
