iSSy.] Beckham on Birds observed at Pueblo. Colorado. 1-3 



ai'keni, apparently not having faith enough in its right to specific rank to 



go eff and 'flock by itself.' 



102. Junco annectens. Next to Junco hyemalis oregonus, this was the 

 most common Junco I met with. I secured a large series, which exhibits 

 considerable variation in size and coloration. 



103. Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus. Although not observed at all in 1883, 

 1 found them quite common here in October, 1SS6, in suitable stony 

 places. One was shot within the city limits, and I saw another in the 

 yard of a hotel, but they prefer the rocky arroyos that are to be found 

 along the Arkansas River and other streams. At a quarrymen's camp, 

 eleven miles west of Pueblo, they were particularly abundant, and so tame 

 that they came and went about the shanties with as much fearlessness as 

 domestic fowls. Their alarm or call-note seemed to me very much like 

 that of the Song Sparrow. All of those collected were very difficult to 

 preserve in good form on account of the loose way in which the feathers 

 were attached to the skin. 



104. Petrochelidon lunifrons. The bird itself was not observed, but a 

 •colony' of their nests was seen attached to some limestone cliffs near the 

 same camp above referred to. 



105. Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides. Through an oversight this 

 bird was not mentioned in any former paper. It was rather common in the 

 spring of 1S83, but during my last visit only two were seen. 



106. Helminthophila celata. But one specimen of this Warbler was 

 obtained. It was shot October 8- out of a party of three or tour which 

 were flitting about the top of a large cottonwood just within the city limits. 

 It was a 'bird of the year,' with the orange crown showing quite distinctly. 

 No others were observed. 



107. Sylvania pusilla pileolata. Two of these birds were taken; one on 

 October 5, in a clump of willows, and another on the 20th, in the same place. 

 I was much surprised to find the Black-cap here as late as the 20th ; for we 

 had had several severe frosts prior to that date, enough to have totally de- 

 stroyed the food of this insect-eating species. It was in fine plumage, and 

 there was no external indication that it had been incapacitated for migra- 

 tion by wounds, moult, etc. 



108. Salpinctes obsoletus. First seen October 6 in some rocky arroyos, 

 eight or ten miles from Pueblo, where one was collected and six or eight 

 more were seen. I again saw one at the same place on October 27. One 

 of the shyest birds I have ever met with. 



109. Certhia familiaris americana. One was captured and another seen 

 on October 24. 



no. Parus atricapillus septentrionalis. This Chickadee was encoun- 

 tered but twice; on October 12. when two were shot out of a flock of eight 

 or ten P. gambcli, with which they seemed to be on the best of terms, and 

 again on November 2, when three were found together in a thicket. The 

 note is rather faint, and not much like that of the eastern bird. 



in. Regulus calendula. Observed upon two or three occasions. Two 

 were shot, a male and a female, both 'birds of the year,' and the former, as 



