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creepers were seen at 11,600 feet on August 14 and 16, and one was taken 

 at Sooo feet on August 18. 



Sitta carolinensis nelsoni. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch. — Ingoing 

 about the mountains we thought a number of times that we detected the 

 notes of nelsoni at a distance, and we were doubtless right, for Mr. Hen- 

 shaw found them breeding abundantly in the pines. Thej were, more- 

 over, taken at our Glorieta camp on the lower edge of the yellow pines as 

 well as on pineclad mesas on the plains. 



Sitta pygmsea. Pygmy Nuthatch.— During July and August the 

 Pjgmj was found throughout the limits of the Transition zone from 7400 

 to 9S00 feet. 



Baeolophus inornatus griseus. Gray Titmouse. — As griseus is a 

 common bird of the piiion pine and juniper belt and was found in the 

 Glorieta region, it would doubtless have been found on the Upper Sonoran 

 slopes of the Pecos caiion had we stopped to work them. 



Parus atricapillus septentrionalis. Long-tailed Chickadee. — A family 

 of nine were seen August 17 at 8000 feet, and one was taken at about 10,500 

 feet. Its gizzard was filled with minute eggs and some insects. 



Parus gambeli. Mountain Chickadee. — While septentrionalis was 

 seen only twice, gatnbeli was common at Glorieta and on the mountains 

 in the Canadian and Hudsonian zones. 



Psaltriparus plumbeus. Lead-colored Bush-Tit. — Like Bceolophus., 

 a typical bird of the juniper and nut pine country, Psaltriparus 'was found 

 in the Glorieta foothills, and was undoubtedly on the Upper Sonoran slopes 

 of the Pecos Caiion. 



Regulus satrapa. Golden-crowned Kinglet. — A young satrapa in 

 pinfeathers was taken July 31 on Pecos Baldy. As this gives a breeding 

 record it makes a long southward extension of the breeding range. 



Regulus calendula. Ruby-crowned Kinglet. — On July 21, when we 

 camped in the spruces at 11,000 feet, the Kinglets were in the height of 

 their song, their cheery round being heard all through the day as they 

 made their circuits of the spruce tops above camp. By August i their 

 songs were much less in evidence, probably for good family reasons. By 

 August 9 their songs were so rarely heard as to be notable, and before we 

 left the foot of Pecos Baldy, August 17, the young were flying about quite 

 independently. 



Myadestes townsendii. Townsend Solitaire. — A pair of Myadestes 

 was seen about July 15 at 8000 feet, and a grown young one was shot July 

 28 at 1 1,000 feet. On the same day a nest with four fairly fresh eggs was 

 found at 12,000 feet. The nest was on the same grassy ridge where Anthus 

 and Otocoris were flying about. As we rode along on horseback the bird 

 flew from under an old gray log at our feet, and on dismounting we found 

 the nest on the ground roofed over by a cavity burned in the log just about 

 large enough to give head space to the Solitaire. The nest was made wholly 

 of grass and weed stems and lined with fine grass. On the side of Pecos 

 Baldy Myadestes was seen above 12,000 feet, and on Truchas above timber- 



