Excerpt from Pacific Coast Avifauna Number 15, Vol. 15: Birds Recorded From the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona The recorded birds from the ranges adjoining the Santa Ritas - the Santa Catalinas and the Huachueas - have long since been published on by Mr. W. E. D. Scott and Mr. II. S. Swarth and others, but comparatively little has been published on the available material from the Santa Rita Mountains which, as Mr. Swarth discovered, have a markedly different set of breeding birds from that of the Huachucas. Work has been done in the Santa Ritas at various times for fifty years, from 1873 to 1923, on both sides of the range, in almost every month of the year, and it has seemed desirable to bring the results together, not only for the convenience of students of distribution and migration, but for the benefit of future field students in this interesting Mexican borderland. The warm valleys on the eastern and southern sides of the mountains may add some winter residents to the foothills not found on the northern and western sides; the migrations may at any time and place afford rewarding surprises; and much may be learned by a study of the life histories of the summer residents, especially of some of the many hummingbirds and rare Mexican species straying across the border. The published records of specimens collected are mainly those of Mr. H. W. Henshaw, Mr. Frank Stephens, and Mr. H. S. Swarth, while the unpublished records, to be found in the catalogue of the U. S. National Museum and in the files of the U. S. Biological Survey, are from Dr. E. W. Nelson, Mr. A. B. Howell, Dr. Walter P. Taylor, and Mr. Vernon Bailey. In 1872, when Captain Charles Bendire was stationed at Fort Lowell, north of Tucson, he explored the surrounding country for hostile Apaches, but almost no personal notes on the birds of the Santa Ritas are found in his Life Histories. He quotes, however, from the notes of Mr. Stephens and Dr. Nelson. In 1873 and 1874, when ornithologist of the Wheeler Survey, Mr. Henshaw did a little collecting at Camp Crittenden (Old Fort Crittenden), at about 4,700 feet altitude, on the east side of the range, where foothill canyons and rocky hillsides on the west and Sonoita Valley on the east afford a great variety of species. His notes from this locality were incorporated in his main Survey report. 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.