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22 were new to my life list. Daylight found us in Lajunta, 

 Colorado, and our horizon closed at <> o'clock, just before the 

 train left us at the miserable little adobe station — Thornton, 

 New Mexico. The large number of new species on this hori- 

 zon is accounted for by the entirely new topography. The 

 plains ha\-e been lost in the distance, and now we are sur- 

 rovmded by the mountains. Of the new acquaintances Lark 

 Bunting was both the most abundant and most interesting. 

 One could not mistake the large white wing patch and the 

 unique bat-like flight. The prairie dogs interested me greatly. 

 Their lookout mounds which occupied railroad property, and 

 many of them be}-ond the fence, were composed of cinders. 

 Examination of several failed to reveal any hole within several 

 feet of the mound, and the hole was not surmoiuited by the 

 regtilation funnel-shaped mound. Each itiound seemed to be 

 owned by a small group of the " Dogs," who would rush to it 

 upon the approach of the train, and scurry away to their holes 

 from fancied danger. 



Lajunta, Col., to Algodonnes, X. M., June •■'>•'. 



Great P.lue Heron. 

 Killdeer. 

 ^Mourning Dove. 

 •Turkey Vulture. 

 Zone- tailed Hawk. 

 Svvainson's Hawk. 

 Ferrujjji nous Rouv^h-leti. 

 Prairie Falcon. 

 Desert Sparrow Hawk. 

 Burrowintr Owl. 

 Lewis's Woodpecker. 

 Sennett's Nit^hthawk. 

 Kingbird. 



Arkansas Kingbird. 

 Cassin's Kingbird. 

 Say's Phoebe. 

 Desert Horned Lark. 

 American IMagpie. 

 White-necked Raven 



American Crow. 



Red- winged Blackbird. 



Western Meadowlark. 



House Flinch. 



Arkansas (ioldfinch. 



Western Lark Sparrow. 



Western Chipping Sparrow. 



Abert's Towhee. 



Dickcissel. 



Lark Bunting. 



Purple Martin. 



Cliff Swallow. 



Barn Swallow. 



\'iolet-green .Swallow. 



Bank Swallow. 



White-rumped Shrike. 



Long-tailed Clial. 



Rock Wren. 



Western Robin. 



Nothing more need be said of the Rio Orande horizon 

 than that we stumbled upon the nest of a Long-tailed Chat 



