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 THE-C9nL?R Volume V MarcH-April, 190a Number 2 A Partial List of the Birds of Keam Canyon, Arizona. BY A. K. FISHKR. IN the summer of 1894 the writer had occasion to visit Keara Canyon, Arizona, for the purpose of studying the mammals and birds of the region. To reach this interesting locality it was necessary to make a stage trip of over twenty- four hours duration, northward from the town of Holbrook on the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad. Leaving Holbrook on the morning of July 17, 1894, we soon ascended the lime- stone rim of the Little Colorado Valley and passed out upon the mesa beyond. Off to the northward the distant landscape was clothed in a delicate purple, the varying shades producing an effect of surpassing beauty and one not easily for- gotten. From this point of vantage it could be seen that beyond the Le Roux wash twenty miles away the route gradually ascended toward the distant horizon, and promised to be more interesting than the sandy waste immediately before us. The long: journey through the day and night was at times somewhat monotonous, but as one of the horses had previously never worn harness, it was prudent to be watchful. North of the Le Roux wash we passed one of the big corrals with long extending wings, now falling into decay, into which in the early days of plenty the Navajos used to drive whole bands of antelope. It was admirably sit- uated for the purpose in a depressed valley, the steep sides of which together with the supplementing fence of interwoven juniper and pinyon boughs, made it im- possible for the animals to escape when once they had entered. Late in the afternoon a heavy thunderstorm broke upon us and the deluge soon filled the washes, so that within one short hour their beds of dry, burning sand weresweptby roaring, seething masses of turbulent waters, which made travel- ing in the low country anything but certain. At one place just at dusk we passed a lot of naked Navajos who had taken advantage of the rain and were bus- ily engaged in drowning out prairie dogs by directing the streams of water into Digitized by Google