Rare Birds of Northeastern New Brunswick

Cox on 2•are 2Vew Brunswick Bt'rd•'.20.5 the foothills of the CatMinas.I have observed it here on only two occasions.Rather common, especially in early spriug, about Tucson.Mr. Brown tbund it commonly in the Q3djitoa country in the winter of •8S4 and ISS5.I did not observe it at either Florence or at Riverside.•73.Habia melanocephala.BLACK-ItEADED GEOSBEAK.--AtMineral Creek, altitude 5ooo feet, this species was breeding in sinall nnmbcrs dnrlngtbesmnlnerofISS2.The only other point where Ihave met with it is i• the Catalina Mountains, where it undoubtedly breeds at the highest altitudes, and where after the first of July it rapidly becomes abundant as low down as 35oo feet.Here I found it in large scattered flocks, during July, August, and September, •$S4, feeding on all the small wild lYuits and seeds that are abnndant at this time of year.Its arrival at this same locality was first noted May I, and it remains till about the first x•.eek in October.I took a remarkably fine albino of this species on August I$, •S$4, in Pepper Sauce Cation.Catalina Mountains.•74.Guiraca ca•rulea.BLUE GRosn•z^K.--Theonly records I have of this species are kindly fi•rnished me by Mr. Brown, who finds it rather rare about Tucson late in May and early in June.•75-Passerina ameena.LAZULI BUNTING.--Observed at Miueral Creek in August, x882.Took a yotmg male (No. 624) in Pepper Sauce Cation (45oo feet), July 27, •S84.These are the only records I have made of the species.Mr. Brown has ibnnd it breeding, bnt not common, about Tncson, where it is most fi'equeut dnring the spring migration.•76.Spiza americana.I)•CKC•SSF.L.-The only record of this species is fi•rnished by Mr. Herbert Brown, who tooka female near Tucson on Septexnber II, •884, and later kindly showed me the bird in his collection.x77.Calamospiza melanocorys.L,xaK BUNTING.This species, if it does not breed within the area under consideration, isprcsent almost the entire year and sometimes is to be met with in enormous flocks.I find in my notes large flocks noted near Florence, Dec. •o-2o, IS83.On the mesa, above Pepper Sauce Cation, CatMinas (altitude 4o0o feet), I saw Aug. •7, I885, two large flocks, composed of adnlt and young in about equal numbers, the adultlnales still in fnll plumag-e.A small flock was seeu in Old tlat Cation, Catalinas (4ooo tEct), on March xo, •S$5 --first of the spriug migration.A number of large flocks were noted on the plains abont Tucson, Feb. x9, x886.( 7b be co•z•Dtued.)

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