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it and induced it to take some syrup; then it flew from my hand and went 

 up a hole in the ceiling where I could not get at it. Coming down again 

 an horn- or two later I captured it again. It was either exhausted or 

 frightened so that it seemed at the point of death, and I laid it outside 

 on a block in the sun, where it soon revived and flew away. Perhaps it was 

 playing possiun. 



August 3, 1902, I was about some clumps of willows at Hillside Ranch, 

 when I saw a Hummingbird, and then more, four altogether, I think. A 

 male was most in evidence; I was quite close to him, three feet, as he 

 perched in the willow. His throat gave a fine display of color, in some lights 

 almost black, again flashing lilac red, almost ruby. I thought at first they 

 had taken shelter in those thick bushes from a shower which had just passed, 

 but I saw a* least one hover beside a twig and apparently pick up some- 

 thing from the bark ; bees and flies were crawling over the bark, seemingly 

 after the same thing; the bark of many of the twigs was perforated and 

 girdled by sapsuckers; indeed, I had seen at least one fly away from there. 

 Though I looked closely I could see nothing in the way of sap. 



In June, 1915, Hummingbirds were seen several times at Hillside Ranch, 

 about the catkins on the willows. The first half of the month these seemed 

 to be theu' favorite feeding grounds; later I saw them about Larkspur and 

 other flowers. I succeeded in taking several fairly good photographs of 

 one bird at the willows. Sometimes this bird fed while poised on the wing, 

 and again it would perch on a twig by the catkin and take what it wished. 



Selasphorus rufus. Rtjfous Hummingbird. — Mr. T. A. Boughton of 

 Marble told me of a Hummingbird which visited the flowers in his garden 

 in 1914, and which from his description could have been nothing but a 

 Rufous Hummer. 



Tyraainus verticalis. Western Kingbird. — Seen on Muddy Creek, 

 but does not reach as high an altitude as that of Crested Butte. June 12, 

 1901, a pair were building a nest near my camp on the mesa west of Muddy 

 Creek. It was on a partly burnt dead aspen, on a sort of shelf or niche 

 on one side, about 25 feet above the ground. The nest was built and the 

 eggs were laid during the time I was there, from the 12th to the 20th, at 

 which latter date the bird was sitting. 



Sayornis saya. Say's Phcebe. — My only record is one seen about 

 the corrals at Hillside Ranch, August 6, 1903. 



Nuttallornis borealis. Olive-sided Flycatcher. — Summer resi- 

 dent, but I have little evidence on which to base a statement as to its 

 abundance. I failed to see it in 1915 in many localities which I would 

 consider well suited to it. One was seen at Pittsburgh, 9,500 feet, and one 

 or two near the Hillside Ranch, possibly the same individual seen on differ- 

 ent occasions. 



Myiochanes richardsoni richardsoni. Western Wood Peewee. — 

 I did not, for. some reason, note this species near Crested Butte until 1915, 

 when on June 8 I took one on the south slope of Crested Butte Mountain, 

 at about 9,500 feet ; this was a male and its breast was bare of feathers as 



