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saw handsome Black Phoebes, a brilliant Yellow-throat, a number of 
Audubon. Warblers, and the first Violet-green Swallows of the season. 
In a nearby gully were two Lawrence’s Goldfinches, the male with black 
forehead and chin but no yellow except on the breast and wing bars, and 
also Green-backed Goldfinches, bright yellow beneath, greenish above. 
Here were three other birds new to me: Abert’s and Green-tailed Towhees 
and a Crissal Thrasher. Busy getting nuts in a pecan orchard were four 
splendid Lewis’s Woodpeckers with their rosy breasts. A female Ladder- 
backed Woodpecker and two exquisite male Mountain Bluebirds competed 
for our attention. 
Giant Saguaros and the Catalina Live Oaks and Junipers on Soldier 
Mountains; Lower Sonoran Zone. Trail; Upper Sonoran Zone. 
Throngs of birds were gathered near a corral of Hereford cattle: a 
large flock of Brewer’s Blackbirds and Redwings with two Yellow-headed 
Blackbirds, multitudes of Western Meadowlarks, Inca Doves and Lark 
Sparrows, as well as a Cardinal and a fascinating Pyrrhuloxia, the delicate 
pink splashed down his breast. At a pond in a field were three Long-billed 
Dowitchers and five species of ducks, the most exciting of which to me were 
gorgeous Cinnamon Teal. Dr. Vorhies walked over to a great cottonwood 
and frightened a Red-tailed Hawk from her nest; she soared about for 
some ten minutes, then returned to perch in the cottonwood. 
At Indian Dam I met my first Vermillion Flycatcher, a young male, an 
engaging creature, pinkish beneath, brown above. And then an adult male! 
