. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . re is the real home of the giant cactus,or sohuara, which not unfrequently grows to a height of fifty to sixty feet, andpowerfully impresses the traveler who sees it for the first time. The other species (exceptthe tree cactus*), especially the hedgehog cacti, the opuntias, and echinocerei, are noti-emarkable for height, but for their great dimensions and terrible armor of ,
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . re is the real home of the giant cactus,or sohuara, which not unfrequently grows to a height of fifty to sixty feet, andpowerfully impresses the traveler who sees it for the first time. The other species (exceptthe tree cactus*), especially the hedgehog cacti, the opuntias, and echinocerei, are noti-emarkable for height, but for their great dimensions and terrible armor of , too, agaves, and various thorny shrubs, are to be found growing here. Moreluxuriant and varied plant-growth is to be found in the Iiver valleys. Notwithstandingthe scarcity of water and the monotony of vegetation, bird-life is still represented bymany and beautiful forms. Different Hummingbirds, Orioles, and several decidedlytropical Flycatchers and Trogons, are found here. Most numerous are the differentTowhees and Thrasheis, which might hence be regarded as the really characteristic birds •See Dr. K. A. Mearns, On the Birds of Arizona. Auk, Vol. Ill, IsssG, p. yyy — yo7. Opujitia uiborcsfcus. IV. 1. PHAINOPEPLA NITENS Sclat. 2. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS BRUNNEICAPILLUS MONTANUS Baird. 4. HARFORHYNCHUS CRISSALIS Baird. SALBEIDROSSELWiJSTENDROSSEL. Thrasher. CRISSAL THRASHER. 69 of Arizona. Among the Brown Thrushes one of the most interesting forms is the Crissalor Red-VENTED Thrasher. As I have not had an opportunity of observing this species myself, I give here anextract of a paper written by Dr. E. A. Mearns, and published in the Auk III. (1886,p. 292—298). He writes: I first met this Thrasher on March 24, 1884, about fifteenmiles east of Prescott, when riding from Fort Whipple to Fort Verde, Arizona. Whenwe left Whipple in the morning, the ground was covered with snow; but a ride of af
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