TANAGERS: ARIZONA HEPATIC TANAGER 
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down for a day from the Sandia Mountains, and possible that the Zuni Mountain 
birds were not breeding, but were merely visitors in fall migration. The species can 
not be common in these mountains, for it has not been seen by any of the various 
parties of the Biological Survey that have made extensive collections throughout 
the range. The nearest place to the south of the Zuni Mountains where it is known 
to breed is near the head of the Mimbres, 6,500 feet (Bailey); [Chloride Canyon, 
Map 59. Arizona Hepatic Tanager 
Triangles mark breeding and breeding season records, mainly in Transition 
Zone 
June 13, 1916, at 6,200 feet (Ligon)]; at Silver City, 6,000 feet, June 27, 1894 
(Fisher); and in the Animas Mountains, 8,000 feet, August 3, 1908 (Goldman). It 
breeds east to the Guadalupe Mountains, where it was still feeding bob-tailed young 
on August 10, 1901, at 6,700 feet (Bailey); and to the Capitan Mountains, where the 
male of a pair was secured on July 22, 1903, at 9,000 feet (Gaut). 
Early in the fall it leaves the State, some late records being September 14, at 
Apache (Anthony), and September 16, 1908, in the Burro Mountains, 6,500 feet 
(Goldman); during migration it occurs as low as 4,000 feet at Fort Thorn (Henry). 
