The Birds of Wyoming. 



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lowstone park, 1875. Williston makes the following note: 

 ■"Not common in the vicinity of Conio, owing probably to the 

 scarcity of timber (very abundant in the mountains)." Jesur- 

 un finds them abundant at Douglas ; Bond states that they ar- 

 rive at Chevenne the last week in March. On the Laramie 



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plains the earliest record of their arrival is April 6. From 

 the Smithsonian collections I have secured the following data : 

 No. 38309 taken at Laramie peak by Expd. West of Missouri 

 River. No. 38309 taken at Laramie peak by R. B. Hitz." 

 Cary found this species more abundant at Newcastle than the 

 previous. In the University collection there are five skms 

 that have been taken from various localities in the state. 



GOATSUCKERS, SWIFTS, ETC. 



418. Phalasnoptilus nuttallii (Aud.). 

 Poor-will. 



Summer resident ; common ; but I anticipate that they are 

 never found in any considerable number. I have found them 

 most numerous in regions where fires have devastated the for- 

 ests at less than 9,000 feet elevation, and there are occasional 

 clusters of second growth pines. It favors a dead fallen tree 

 with limbs somewhat above the ground to perch upon. 



As the weary traveller makes his bed beside some moun- 

 tain stream where nature reigns supreme and is undisturbed, 

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