122 Beckham on Birds observed a/ Pueblo, Colorado. [April 



losus in the East. I had no difficulty in .shooting them with a .22-calibre 

 cane gun. 



95. Tyrannus vociferans. Upon looking over my skins taken at 

 Pueblo in the spring of 1883, I find several representatives of this species 

 which I had then erroneously referred to T. verticalis. As I collected 

 three skins of each bird, it is probable that they were equally abundant 

 there at that time. 



96. Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus. One individual of this 

 subspecies was captured October S. in a field covered with a dense growth 

 of frost-killed Helianthus. The coloring is unusually brown for alaudinus. 

 Several more were seen on that day, but none before or afterwards. 



gy. Zonotrichia querula. On October 29 I shot a male of this species 

 in the autumnal plumage of the young bird. It was in company with a 

 lot of [uncos and Tree Sparrows. No others were seen. This, I believe. 

 considerably extends the known range of Harris's Sparrow, as I can find 

 no •record' west of Kansas or Nebraska. 



9S. Zonotrichia albicollis. A male in fine plumage of this essentially 

 Eastern Province bird, was captured on October 24. The specimen is un- 

 usually small. Excepting a skin in the National Museum from Oregon, 

 this is believed to be the most western record for the White-throated 

 Sparrow. Perhaps both were mere stragglers. Colonel Goss (Birds Kan.. 

 1SS6, p. 43) says it is "common" in Kansas, but the note doubtless has 

 reference to the eastern part of the State. 



99. Spizella monticola ochracea. First detected on October 20. after 

 which date they became very abundant. The males were singing a good 

 deal in low and weak, disconnected tones, peculiar to many young Spar- 

 rows which begin 'practising' in the fall. In November I heard 5. monti- 

 cola singing in the same way in Kentucky, and observed that the notes of 

 the two birds were precisely alike. 



100. Junco aikeni. Quite common. Generally in flocks with other 

 ] uncos, but upon one occasion I found a flock of ten or twelve which 

 seemed to be composed entirely of aikeni. Decidedly one of the shyest 

 birds I ever met with. Whenever I came in sight they all seemed to real- 

 ize at once that their skins were wanted, judging from the celerity with 

 which they took themselves away. Otherwise their habits seemed to 

 be similar to those of other Juncos. The skins collected show a great deal 

 of variation in the intensity of the slate color, and in the amount of white 

 on the wings. 



101. Junco hyemalis. Four or five of these birds were collected, and 

 many more were seen. One of them was submitted to Mr. Ridgway for 

 examination, who writes : "No. 2510 is J. hyemalis of the type which Dr. 

 Coues proposed to call J. hyemalis connect ens, and which Mr. Brewster 

 thinks shows intergradation with J. oregonus. but which I cannot satis- 

 factorily distinguish from the Eastern bird." Out here the bird itself 

 seemed to share the uncertainty of the ornithologists as to its taxonomic 

 status, for I invariably found it associated with oregonus. anuec/eus, or 



