I 4- Beckham on Birds observed at Pueblo, Colorado. | April 



40. Melospiza lincolni (And.). Common in undergrowth in company 

 with other Sparrows. 



41. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (Szv.). Rather common in the foot- 

 hills thirty miles southwest, but only a few observed in the immediate 

 vicinity of Pueblo. 



42. Pipilo chlorurus (Tozvus.). Abundant. 



43. Zamelodia melanocephala (Szv.). First seen May 4, after which 

 the males became very abundant; no females at all were recognized. A 

 nest containing four eggs was taken on June 1, and the male shot just after 

 leaving it. Their song, almost always delivered from the topmost branch 

 of a tree, is very full and sonorous, and very similar to that of the Robin. 



44. Guiraca caerulea (L.). A female, shot on June 10, and a male 

 seen were the only two observed. 



45. Passerina amoena (Say). Common, but none were seen until 

 May 15. 



46. Molothrus ater (Bodd.). A male, seen on May 27, was the only 

 one recognized. 



47. Xanthocephalus icterocephalus (Bp.). A large flock was several 

 times seen a mile and a half up the river. 



4S. Agelaeus phceniceus (£.)• Abundant. A colonj' of them breeding 

 within the 'city limits.' A very comprehensive term as applied to west- 

 ern 'cities.' 



49. Sturnella neglecta And. Abundant. When I first heard the note 

 I had no idea from what sort of a bird it proceeded. 



50. Icterus bullocki (Szv.). Very abundant. Before the leaves ap- 

 peared, their compactly woven nests (old ones, of course) were very con- 

 spicuous objects on the cottonwoods, bordering the Fountain. 



51. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus ( Wag-!.). Common. Found 

 breeding. 



52. Pica rustica hudsonica (Scop.). Very abundant. The Magpie 

 has a very bad name out here, but like the Devil, is not. perhaps, 'as black 

 as he is painted.' Hundreds of them breed in the cottonwood a mile or 

 two down the river, and their immense globular nests, made exclusively 

 of sticks, are everywhere to be seen. They begin laving, I think, about 

 April 15, and a month later the young are able to fly. Seven or eight 

 eggs appear to be the usual number to a clutch. 



53. Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha (Bd.). A party of seven or eight 

 were seen on Sept. 24 in the immediate vicinity of town. They were 

 perfectly silent and acted generally as if they had been doing something 

 that they ought not to have done, and were anxious to get back to the 

 foothills. In the Greenhorn Mountains, and at Manitou, I found them very 

 abundant. The ranchemen in the former locality accuse them of robbing 

 hen's nests, and foraging on the garners where grain is stored. 



54. Eremophila alpestris leucolaema Cs. Very common. The spec- 

 imens taken are provisionally referred to this form, although, according 

 to Mr. Henshaw, there are two distinct races whose range includes Pueblo. 



55. Tyrannus carolinensis (L.). Common. 



