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



with grown young, June 23, at head of Devil's Gulch; one pair in Mills 

 Park, July 6; in Wind River canon, July 7; Lamb's Ranch, July 14. 



80. Sitta pygmaea. Seven pairs located; four in the village; one 

 at Horse Shoe Ranch; one in Mills Park; one in Lamb's Ranch. First 

 young leave nest June 21. 



81. Penthestes atricapillus septentrionalis. One pair near Elk- 

 horn Lodge; one near Gem Lake, 8000 feet; two pairs at Fork's, feeding 

 young out of nest, July 15. 



82. Penthestes gambeli gambeli. Five pairs near the village; 

 two at Horse Shoe Ranch, two in Mills Park. First young leave nest 

 June 16; building again June 26. 



83. Regulus calendula calendula. None near the village. Lily 

 Lake, 8900 feet, June 25; Horse Shoe Ranch, July 2; two pairs near Long's 

 Peak Inn, 9000 feet, and one at Lamb's Ranch, 9040 feet; one at Schwarz's 

 beaver lake, 8500 feet, July 6. 



84. Myiadestes townsendi. One near the village, at side of Old 

 Man Mountain, June 18 and 19; one in song, Gem Lake, 8000 feet, June 

 22; one in song in Wind River canon, June 25; one on tree-top, Lamb's 

 Ranch, 9040 feet, July 12. 



85. Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola. Four in song in Mills Park 

 July 8-14; heard sometimes during the day, but regularly in evening just 

 before dark. 



86. Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni. From Fork's to Mills, 6000- 

 9000 feet, along all streams; one even in village near the mouth of Fall 

 River, and others just outside of the village. One came to the lawn of 

 Elkhorn Lodge in the early morning when everything was quiet, but 

 otherwise they were exceedingly shy and were seldom heard to sing in 

 day time and usually not until it was so dark in the evening that it was not 

 easy to see them, even when one succeeded in getting near to the singer. 

 Living always in the dense thicket, immediately adjoining the streams, 

 the only time to observe them well is when they come to the edge of the 

 water to feed at the bank, which they often do. When singing they sit 

 about twenty feet from the ground in, not on top of a tree, sometimes an 

 aspen, but more commonly a spruce or pine. The song is a very simple 

 one, but is repeated with hardly any modulation over and over until it 

 becomes monotonous. It may be represented by ivida widy — wida widy 

 dewit, with the second part often omitted. Although heard in Mills 

 Park they were more numerous between 6000 and 8000 feet. 



87. Hylocichla guttata auduboni. None near the village. Two, 

 in song, at head of Wind River canon near Lamb's, 9040 feet, and two near 

 Long's Peak Inn, 9000 feet; very quiet, singing only a few minutes at a 

 time. 



88. Planesticus migratorius propinquus. The most numerous 

 and best known of all birds, almost omnipresent in the valleys, not only 

 near settlements, but far away from them in the woods. As common at 

 Fork's as in Mills Park, but most abundant in the village, where their song 



