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 ,52 THE CONDOR Vol. XIII ing abundantly in suitable places throughout the entire district. The Indian name is Haw'-he and my informant told me in connection with the matter what he considered quite a joke. He was working for a man who asked him the Indian name for the dove and was told correctly. The next day they saw the bird again, and the Indian, wishing to see how well the term was remembered, asked for the name. The white man at once responded "H-haw." The Indian laughed heartily as he told the story, and all that day whenever we saw a dove he would say H-haw and chuckle. During November and December they are fewest in number, but in January and February many more arrive, and in the breeding months they are everywhere. Nesting begins the first part of April, my first find being dated April 12, the nest containing eggs partly incubated. Many nests were noted during April, May, June and July, with no attempt made to keep a correct census of them. August 13 was the latest date, and on that day two nests with eggs were seen. Nests were abundant from April 15 till July 15 and in all sorts of situations. One was on the ground under a cotton plant, and others in trees as high as twenty feet from the ground. The average height was seven and a half feet, and extremes were three feet and twenty feet. Mesquite trees being more numerous contained' the most nests, though many were found in other growth, such as Sarcobatus or greasewood, Cholla cactus, willow, Batcharis, Zizyphus or vild jujube, Atriplex or salt bush, Prosopis or screw-bean, ironwood, c)ttonwood, and pear tree. A favorite site wa on top of a mesquite stump where the young shoots formed a shade and conceal- merit. The brooding bird as a rule was quite tame on the nest, and generally went through the pretence of being wounded when scared from her home. After the young are grown, small flocks are seen on cultivated fields all fall and winter. The Indians never hunt them and they are quite tame. The White-winged Dove or Sonora Pigeon, Melopelia asiatica, is migratory, arriving here about the 20th of April. Their coming is coincident with the ripen- ing of the berries of the wild jujube, Zizyphus lycioides, upon which they feed greedily as long as the fruit lasts, consuming both ripe and green. The Pima term for the bird is Aw-kaw'-kwe. They come in such great numbers that the wheat fields suffer and the loss is considerable. The Indians try to frighten them away from the fields but do not hunt them. Probably they figure that ammunition would count up more on the debit side than would the wheat destroyed.. At pres- ent there is no closed season and the beautiful birds may be shot whenever present. There was an attempt recently made to have them protected, but such a howl went up from the ranchers that nothing was done. It seems a pity to hunt them during the breeding season, but if we were raising wheat we might look upon the practice with mote philosophy. The white color pattern shown when the bird is in flight is quite striking. When perched, the white on the wings is rather inconspicuous, but in motion it shows as two broad crescents, and the white crescent-shaped bar across the tail, generally spread a little in flying, adds greatly in producing the striking effect. From the day of their arrival in spring they set up a continual call which may be roughly described as Co-co'-o-cok'-co-co'-o. This call is heard in all directions from morning till night and in such volume that it becomes a sort of continuous bass hum, a background or sounding board for all the other bird songs and calls. It lacks the plaintive tone of the Mourning Dove call, and to most people becomes a dreary monotonous droning which wears. on their nerves. Be that as it haay, the sight and sound of the bird is part and parcel of the mesquite desert and would be sorely missed. The gunner, in these