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 22 TH 'CONDOR " 'V6h XX that might confidently be expected to occur there. No nighthawks of the Chor-. deiles.virginianus group were observed, though C. v. henryi is known to breed at the same altitude in other parts of the state. The absentee whose defection was most unexpected, though, was the Audubon Warbler (Dedroica auduboni). Not one was seen, in mountains affording many miles of apparently ideal surround- ings for the species. This section is debatable territory between the ranges of D. a. igrfrons to the southward and D. a. auduboni to the northward, and birds occurring in the region might be expected to illustrate intergradation between the two. It would be a most unexpected development should further eXPloration in central Arizona fully demonstrate what seems to be indicated here--a hiatus where neither form of the species occurs. My visit to the Sierra Ancha was too brief to warrant any sweeping statements of this nature, but the fact remains that in a sojourn of hearly three weeks amid favorable surroundings not one Au- dubon Warbler was seen, and it is a species with notes and actions sufficiently conspicuous to advertise its presence. Additional species presenting points of special interest are listed below. Dryobates pubescens homorus. Batchelder Woodpecker. Four or five seen in the Sierra Ancha, all in walnuts or maples along the streams. This can hardly be regarded as a new locality record, for Mearns (Auk, vii, 1890, p. 252) found the species breeding in the Mogollons, of which the Sierra Ancha are a so'uthern off-shoot, but it has been seen at so few points in Arizona as to make any oc- currence worth reporting. Antrostomus vocfferus macromystax. Stephens Whip-poor-will. At Carr's Ranch on the evening of July 1, a whip-poor-will was heard calling repeatedly. The species has not been report6d heretofore from north of the Graham Moun- tains. Myiarchus magster magister. Arizona Crested Flycatcher. Seen in small numbers about Tempe,. at Roosevelt Lake, and north to the base of the Sierra Ancha. It has not been previously noted this far north in this section of the state. All the birds seen were in the neighborhood of giant cactus, and the range of the species in Arizona is probably co-extensive with that. of this plant. Icterus parisorum. Scott Oriole. An adult male was seen from the stage a few miles east of Fish Creek station, between Tempe and Roosevelt. At this point the hi]Is were well covered with agaves, an association frequently favored by this oriole. One or two others were seen or hesrd about Roosevelt Lake. The Scott Oriole has not before been noted this far north in central Arizona. Loxia curvirostra bendirei. Bendire Crossbill. Two specimens, adult fe- males, taken at Carr's Ranch, Sierra Ancha, June 16. Crossbills reported from Arizona heretofore have all been of the Mexican subspecies, L. c. stricklandi, but these two individuals are unmistakably the smaller-billed Rocky Mountain form. They were evidently not breeding. Spizella atrogularis. B]ack-chinned Sparrow. Found in the Sierra Ancha, breeding in small numbers at from 5000 to 6000 feet altitude. As elsewhere, the birds were here frequenting hot, brushy hillsides, where the loud, characteristic song of the males gave unfailing evidence of their presence. There are but two previously reported summer stations for this species in Arizona, Fort Whipple, and the Hualpai Mountains. Junco phaeonotus dorsalis. Red-backed Junco.. A very few juncos, not more than three or four in all, were seen about the summit of Aztec Peak, Sierra Ancha, where one specimen, an adult female, was taken June 26. This bird, in