Page 126 - Early Naturalists of the Black Range

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Santa Rita
Lanius l. 1
Habia melanouplala com
Mimbres
Troglodytes a. aztecus 1
Piranga ludoviciana com Callipipea Lophostrix gambeli 7.
(Ditto for: com)
Callipepla squamosa, said to be com Lophostrix californias (Ditto for:
said to be com) a few
(Ditto for: Lophostrix) mesina
(Ditto for: said to be com) a few
GOS Ranch on Sappelo Cr
May 12
Petrochilidous abn. breeding Cyanocephalus abn
Cyanocitta macrolopha 2
Mimus pollyglottos 2
Carpodacus portalis com Cathartes aura (Ditto for: com) Piranga ludoviceana (Ditto for: com) Progne s. hesperus, nests in pine
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May 12
Over to camp on Mimbres Sayorius saya nest in old house (Ditto for: Sayorius) nigricans nest
in shed & another nest on cliff
over water.
Contopus richardsoni com Cyanocitta a few Cathartes aura 2 Zenaidura abn.
Accipiter velox 1
Melkverpes? com Dryolates harrisi 1 Colaptes cafer com Whip
Antrostomus stephensi heard Dendroica nigrescens T 1 Carpodacus frontalis com
Tyrannus vociferous (Ditto for: com) Piranga ludoviciana (Ditto for: com) (Ditto for: Piranga) cooperi 1 Spizella arizonai com
Habia melairaplala 1
Sialia com
Merula propinqua (Ditto for: com) Troglodytes d. aztecas (Ditto for: com) Sitla pygenia (Ditto for: com) Aphelocoma woodhousi (Ditto for: com) Progne s. hesperus (Ditto for: com) Salprinctes 1
Meleagris merriami, feathers
Aquila chrysaetos - 1 reported
6. Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Aphelocoma woodhouseii, formerly considered a subspecies of what was then the Western Scrub-Jay, Hillsboro, New Mexico, 11/25/17. Aphelocoma refers to the lack of a crest on this jay (apheles = smooth and kome = hair
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of the head). In 1907 this species was called Scrub-Jay and included the
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species now called California, Island, Florida, and Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay.