Lusk says the breasts of a pair he watched among sycamores, shone warmly in the sun. Flies were plentiful and at intervals they repeated a soft pit-pit as tho keeping track of each other. When certain the female was nearby, the male varied the program with a variety of notes and ventriloquial calls.
NEST: of dried grass, bark, spider webs and feathers, compact and located on limb or close to trunk.
EGGS: 3 or 4; pale buff or white.
Southern Arizona and New Mexico.
A tree up to 50 feet high, distributed in hot valleys of southern Arizona.