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MAY. '?903 [ THE CONDOR 69 The last time I saw this feathered beauty was on the North Fork of White River about twenty miles above Fort Apache. I was cutting a fishing pole from some willows on the bank of the stream, which runs through an open pine forest. Suddenly as I stepped on a large bunch of wire-grass, I was startled by a pair that went roaring up from the other side wlth the usual speed and clucking. From what I have seen, though my observations have not been extensive, I believe that the Mogollons and White Mountains mark their northern range in the territory. Considering the fact that the bird had been well known for so many years, it seems strange that the first nest was not discovered until ?89o and was not des- cribed until Bendire's first volrune was published in ?892. BAND-TAILED PIGEON. The band-tailed pigeon (Columbafasciata) a bird de- scribed from a specimen taken at what is now Castle Rock, Colo., cannot be called an Arizona bird proper, but is, I think, found in any of the Arizona moun- tains where the live oaks or junipers are abundant, as it depends chiefly on these trees for its food, and when not restrained by its nesting cares, wanders over the mountains following the ever changing supply of berries, acorns and juniper buds. In the Huachucas when the wild mulberries were ripe, they would be found on the east side of the mountains near the centre of the range. When the juni- per buds appeared they were more numerous on the west side, in the Carmelira Hills, and when the acorns ripened they scattered over the whole range through the oak woods. When the breeding season draws near, they betake themselves to sheltered places among the lower mountains, and nest in scattered communities, or as I have seen in several cases, a pair will nest apart from the others. One of the largest breeding communities I noted, was in a little pocket in the mountains, about five miles south of Fort Huachuca: this little place was at the head of a short canyon, and was indeed an ideal spot for birds, as it was well wooded and watered. Here a flock of about thirty-five pairs of band-tails nested in a scattered rookery, pro- bably not averaging a nest to every three or four acres at the most thickly popu- lated part; and a great majority of the nests were even farther apart than this. The nests in this colony were all placed on the forks of low horizontal limbs of live oaks usually not more than twelve feet up or less than nine, and in no case did I find more than one egg or squab in a nest. The nests were all of that very simple dove-like construction consisting of a few sticks placed on a fork of a branch. Not all of the birds nested at the same time, as fresh eggs and week-old squabs were found on April x6, and two nests containing a fresh egg each were found on May 9 in this colony. The two cases of pairs nesting outside of colonies, and I do not think these cases are unusual, were, first, a nest found on a low limb of a juniper in the Carmelitas, containing one egg about a week incubated on the 2nd of April ?892 , and one in a juniper on a steep hill side above Fort Huachuca. I believe that the habit of carrying ths eggs off in the feathers, or held be- tween the legs, as noted by Mr. O. C. Poling in Bendire's first volume, requires further proof. . COeeEt?-TA?r,?D TROGON. The coppery-tailed trogon (Trogon ambiguus) is without a doubt one of the rarest birds that reaches our southern borders, and from all present records, it is probable that the center of its abundance within our borders is in the Huachuca and neighboring mountains of Arizona. Lieutenant Benson of the 4th Cavalry shot an immature male in the Huachucas on August 24 ?885. Several were seen or collected by Mr. Lusk in I89I and in the same year