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BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES 



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able habitat on the r()ck\ , 



shoi-es of Green ^ 



pigeon hawk, I 



note, had set 



and was watching 



the only fly in ,, 



enchanted 



flycatcher 



copse some distance up 



way. I trudged up the valley i 



above Clear Lake, and found 



meadow, with clumps of buslic- 



in which a few white-crownrd 



Wilson's warblers had taken up 



dwellino;; but the wind was 



inglv from the snow-capped 



many miles away, and there 



aspect about the vale. The cold 



the birds as it did myself, for 



few bars of song in a half- 



ing was approaching, and the 



the human ones, I mean — 



down the vallevs and canons 



town, which they reached at 



thankful for the privilege of | spending an idyllic 



day among their winged com- ^ ' panions. 



Following a wagon road, the ' next day, across a 



Pigeon Hawk 

 " Watching for quarnj^' 



forest-locked 

 M?!?Lake. A 

 1 egretted to 

 :led among the bushes, 

 for quarrv, making 

 M / the amber of the 

 N< spot. A least 

 flitted about in the 

 a shallow run- 

 a bout a mile 

 a green, open 

 ^ here and there, 

 sparrows and 

 ;it least a temporary 

 blowing shiver- 

 mountains not 

 was still a wintry 

 evidently affected 

 they lisped only a 

 hearted way. Even- 

 two travellers — 

 started on the trail 

 toward George- 

 dusk, tired, but 



