316 Widmann, Birds of Estes Park, Colorado. [july 



Schwarz's beaver lake, 8500 feet; but none on Glacier Meadow, 9000 feet, 

 where entirely replaced by Lincoln's Sparrow. 



55. Melospiza lincolni lincolni. Only one pair in Estes village in 

 Stanley's pasture, together with Song Sparrows on the same ground. 

 Also with Song Sparrow in Horse Shoe Park, 8500 feet. More common in 

 Mills Park, where their song could be heard at all times of the day at Long's 

 Peak Inn, the singer sitting within a few yards of the building. Four were 

 in song at the same time in Glacier Meadow and several more along Inn 

 Creek, which flows south toward the St. Vrain River. 



56. Pipilo maculatus montanus. Only at Fork's, where common, 

 in song and with fully grown young. 



57. Oreospiza chlorura. At all places, in song, from Fork's to Mills 

 Park, but nowhere conspicuous because shy. With fully grown young 

 Jul}' 18 on the hillsides above Fork's. 



58. Zamelodia melanocephala. At Fork's; in the village and Horse 

 Shoe Ranch, but none at Mills Park. 



59. Passerina amoena. Only at Fork's; several males in full song, 

 and fully grown young, July 15. 



60. Piranga ludoviciana. At Fork's and at several places in the 

 canon of the Big Thompson. Two pairs in the village, and one male July 

 12 in Lamb's Ranch. 



61. Petrochelidon lunifrons lunifrons. Twenty-three nests were 

 occupied under the eaves of the schoolhouse in Estes village. Several 

 more were in use on the cliffs at the mouth of Fall River, and on the rock 

 near the planing mill. Birds were seen near Highland Inn and in the 

 canon of the Big Thompson between the village and Fork's, but much 

 larger numbers were seen in the canon east of Fork's. 



62. Hirundo erythrogastra. One or two pairs in the village on the 

 Dunraven Ranch; seen also at Highland Inn and Mary's Lake. Two 

 pairs feeding young in nests, July 15-18, at Fork's. 



63. Iridoprocne bicolor. Associating and sitting together side by 

 side with Violet-green Swallows were two pairs of Tree Swallows on the 

 telephone wire in front of Long's Peak Inn, July 7. 



64. Tachycincta thalassina lepida. The most numerous and gen- 

 erally distributed of the swallows; common at Fork's, as well as in the 

 village and Mills Park. Nesting about buildings, but more frequently 

 in woodpecker holes in the vicinity of settlements; never far from them. 

 One looked out of an old Eave Swallow's nest under the eave of a cottage 

 in the village; another pair building in a nook under the roof of a cottage 

 was driven from it by a Mountain Bluebird preparing for a second brood. 



65. Stelgidopterix serripennis. One pair at the east end of the 

 village near Dunraven ranch. 



66. Vireosylva gilva swainsoni. Song heard along all streams from 

 6000 feet to 9000 feet; but mostly near settlements; song still heard July 

 18, when we left. 



67. Lanivireo solitarius plumbeus. One pair in village on bluff 



