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Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e mustnot be confused with the black Mexican, slightly smallerin size, and who has frequently suffered for the mis-deeds of his larger cousin. No hawk should be shotwhich displays red feathers on shoulders or tail, althoughboth the red-shouldered hawk and the red-tail are fre-quently called hen-hawks, and are killed because of theirsupposed depredations. Neither of these, however, hasbeen guilty of the least damage, save in the most excep-tional instances, and the work they do in the fields inclearing them of gophers, squirrels, mice, etc., of whichtheir food chiefly consists, is invaluable to the farmer. The same may be said of the smaller hawks, and oneof the most foolish things a farmer can do is to shootthem and the smaller owls. The monkey-faced owl, theone most common in the irrigated Arizona valleys, unlessthe little prairie owl is excepted, is one of the best feath-ered friends that the rancher has, and should be pro-tected. Humming-birds of some species abound in the northern
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Photograph by (leorge Wharton James. AN APACHE MAIDEN WATER-CARRIER AT PALOMAS, ARIZONA. The Birds of Arizona 157 portion of the State. Merriam says of the broad-tailedhumming-bird (Selasphorus platycercus, Swainson) : It is very abundant in the balsam belt and the upper part of thepine belt. A nest containing two nearly fledged young was foundon the limb of a Douglas fir, about four feet from the ground, July31. The principal food plant of this humming-bird is the beautifulscarlet trumpet flower of the Pentstemon barbatus Torreyi. Duringthe latter part of August and early September, after it has ceasedflowering, these birds were most often seen in the beds of the largeblue larkspur (Delphinium Scopulorum). They wake up very earlyin the morning and go to water at daylight no matter how cold theweather is. During the month of August, and particularly the firsthalf of the month, when the mornings were often frosty, hundredsof them came to the spring to drink and bathe at break of day. T

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