Download or read book Pacific Coast Avifauna, Vol. 4 written by Harry S. Swarth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna, Vol. 4: Birds of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona The Huachuca Mountains are a range which have been pretty thoroughly explored by investigators in various branches of natural history, but of which there has been but little published, at least of ornithological interest. A few scattered notes recording the occurrence of various rarities in that region, and some more or less carefully detailed accounts of the breeding habits of the most interesting and conspicuous species of birds inhabiting the mountains are about all that have appeared, but nothing of a general character; and as in the course of several seasons careful work in the mountains many interesting and surprising facts in distribution, migrations, etc., of various species were being continually encountered, which, while they may be familiar to the naturalists who have visited the range, are probably unknown to ornithologists in general, I have been induced to embody the results of my labors in the following pages. The list of residents and summer visitants I believe to be fairly complete, but as stray individuals of many surprising and more or less unexpected species have turned up in the region on various occasions it is but fair to suppose that additional species of this class will have to be added to this list in the future, and it is possible that there are some that I failed to meet with occurring regularly during the fall migration, of which I saw but very little. Though considerable work was done along the valley of the San Pedro River, but a few miles distant, and a number of birds found there not occurring in the Huach-ucas, I have preferred to limit my list to such species as occur in the mountains, or, ranging over the plains below, occasionally venture up into the mouths of the canyons; for a great variety of migrating water fowl undoubtedly occurs along the San Pedro River, both in the spring and fa 11, and these I had hardly any opportunity of observing, so prefer to restrict myself as indicated. The following list is, with the exception of a few records quoted from various publications, entirely from observations made and specimens collected during three visits to the region under consideration. In 1896 four of us, W. B. Judson, H. G. Rising, O. W. Howard and myself made the Huachuca mountains the objective point of a leisurely wagon trip from Los Angeles across the Colorado desert and southern Arizona, and spent three months, from April 25th to July 20th, camped in Ramsey Canyon. In 1902 O. W. Howard and myself were camped together near the mouth of Miller Canyon from March 29th to July 25th, when Mr. Howard returned to Los Angeles, leaving me in the mountains, where I remained until September 5th. In 1903 I was in the mountains, also in Miller Canyon, from February 17th to May 30th. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."