Birds of the Rockies

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Leonard Johnson, and the
Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(https://www.pgdp.net)



Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
      file which includes the original illustrations.
      See 25973-h.htm or 25973-h.zip:
      (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/9/7/25973/25973-h/25973-h.htm)
      or
      (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/9/7/25973/25973-h.zip)


Transcriber's note:

      Text enclosed between equal signs was in bold face in
      the original (=bold face=).





BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES

by

LEANDER S. KEYSER

Author of "In Bird Land," Etc.

With Eight Full-page Plates (four in color)
by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES; Many Illustrations
in the Text by BRUCE HORSFALL, and
Eight Views of Localities from Photographs


With a Complete Check-List
of Colorado Birds







[Illustration: PLATE I

WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER _Sphyrapicus thyroideus_
(Figure on left, male; on right, female)]



[Illustration]


Chicago . A. C. McClurg and Co.
Nineteen Hundred and Two

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1902

Published September 27, 1902




TO
KATHERINE
AND
THE BOYS

IN MEMORY OF MANY HAPPY DAYS
BOTH INDOORS AND OUT




CONTENTS
                                                                    PAGE

 UP AND DOWN THE HEIGHTS                                              19

 INTRODUCTION TO SOME SPECIES                                         31

 BALD PEAKS AND GREEN VALES                                           47

 BIRDS OF THE ARID PLAIN                                              83

 A PRETTY HUMMER                                                     103

 OVER THE DIVIDE AND BACK                                            117

 A ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAKE                                               139

 A BIRD MISCELLANY                                                   149

 PLAINS AND FOOTHILLS                                                177

 RAMBLES ABOUT GEORGETOWN                                            197

 HO! FOR GRAY'S PEAK!                                                223

 PLEASANT OUTINGS                                                    259

 A NOTABLE QUARTETTE                                                 285

 CHECK-LIST OF COLORADO BIRDS                                        307

 INDEX                                                               349




ILLUSTRATIONS

FULL-PAGE PLATES


 PLATE                                                       FACING PAGE

    I. WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER--_Sphyrapicus
       thyroideus_                                        _Frontispiece_

   II. GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE--_Pipilo chlorurus_;
         SPURRED TOWHEE--_Pipilo megalonyx_                           47

  III. LAZULI BUNTING--_Cyanospiza amoena_                            83

   IV. LARK BUNTING--_Calamospiza melanocorys_                       139

    V. LOUISIANA TANAGER--_Pyranga ludoviciana_                      177

   VI. TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE--_Myiadestes townsendii_                 223

  VII. RUDDY DUCK--_Erismatura rubida_                               259

 VIII. BROWN-CAPPED LEUCOSTICTE--_Leucosticte australis_             303


SCENIC AND TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS
                                                                    PAGE

 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS ("Their grass-lined nests
 by the babbling mountain brook")                                     21

 TURTLE DOVES ("Darting across the turbulent stream")                 44

 PIPITS ("Te-cheer! te-cheer!")                                       50

 PIPITS ("Up over the Bottomless Pit")                                51

 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW ("Dear Whittier")                              55

 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET ("The singer elevated his crest
 feathers")                                                           65

 DESERT HORNED LARKS ("They were plentiful in this parched
 region")                                                             84

 HORNED LARK ("It was a dear little thing")                           88

 COYOTE ("Looking back to see whether he were being pursued")        100

 ONE OF THE SEVEN LAKES                                              105

 SUMMIT OF PIKE'S PEAK                                               111

 "PIKE'S PEAK IN CLOUDLAND"                                          114

 CLIFF-SWALLOWS ("On the rugged face of a cliff")                    118

 ROYAL GORGE                                                         123

 PINE SISKINS                                                        128

 WILLOW THRUSH                                                       136

 BREWER'S BLACKBIRDS ("An interesting place for bird study")         139

 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS ("There the youngsters
 perched")