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158 placed made an uncertain climb unwise, and we could not pick out any nest that looked sure. Lunch time had long passed without our notice, it was now four o'clock, and we were six miles from camp. We ate our biscuits and started back. Another Arizona Cardinal was heard calling and its nest in a grapevine-covered hackberry yielded three more treasures. By six we were back in camp, and after supper we hit upon a plan by which Chrisman was to go to Reddington, some twelve miles down the canyon, on the San Pedro river, for hay and grain for his two horses, and chuck for the three of us, enough for five days. We planned to go across the foothills into another canyon, and then on to the summit of the range, three days to go, one on top, and then one to return by a shorter, steeper trail.

While Chrisman was gone the next day we hunted as before, though with rather poor success, as we found but one nest each of Gray Vireo and Arizona Cardinal. We met Chrisman about four miles down the canyon as he came back with his load, and returned with him to get our traps ready for an early start the next day. Our program was for Howard and myself to hunt as we went along, leaving the horses and camp to Chrisman. It was some twelve miles to our first camp. The extremely dry season made it necessary to pack both hay and grain for the horses, making with our bed roll and grub quite a load for each of the two, big animals which were Chrisman's pride.

The day was barren of oological results. We made our camp near an old adobe cabin where there was a good stream of water, and were on the road again before six the next morning. A short distance above camp stood a lone cottonwood with a large stick nest near its top. As we approached a Zone-tail left the nest and flew screaming away. I strapped on the climbers, and was not long in reaching the nest, some sixty feet from the ground. It contained two plain white eggs, incubation far advanced. The canyon we were now in was quite barren. Scrub oaks and other brush, with a few chollas and spanish bayonet interspersed, offered few nesting sites. One cholla was found to contain a nest with three eggs of the Palmer Thrasher. Eight miles above our previous night's camp we struck into the trail and followed it over a low ridge into another canyon. Here we found our guide preparing lunch. While he finished his preparations I made a quick search of the oak brush near by and found another nest of Arizona Cardinal. Our next camp was ten long miles up this canyon, over a steep rough trail. We were able to hunt but little and located only a nest of Phainopepla with incomplete clutch.

It was after seven o'clock when we approached our destination. A tall slender cottonwood stood close to a high cliff and held at its top a typical Buteo's nest, from which flew Madam Zone-tail in response to a well aimed stone. It was too late for a climb then so we put it off for the morrow. After a supper of jerky stew and frying pan bread, both delicious as prepared by our chef, we lay under the branches of a giant sycamore and listened to the whimpering of some Pigmy Owls in a nearby oak. Various other night noises reminded us of our bed on the sand a few nights before, but our comfortable blankets gratefully reassured us that we were not to repeat that experience.

We were up early again the next morning and investigated the oak where he had heard the Pigmy Owls, but found nothing. Various other trees with holes in them were examined with no better results, so we turned our attention to breakfast and after finishing it, helped Chrisman pack up and start, as we