86 General Notes. [f^ 



C. B. and Q. Ry., and Limon is 90 miles at about the same angle south of 

 east of Denver on the U. P. Ry. This brings the little thief that stole 

 hazelnuts which I, year after year in my boyhood days, gathered and 

 spread upon the woodshed roof to dry, 75 miles closer to my present home : 

 and I wonder if the little tormentor is following me here to steal the hazel- 

 nuts that I purchase in the Denver market. I wish that I might calculate 

 his westward progress, but I cannot, for this Blue Jay at Limon was killed 

 four years before those were observed at Wray. 



^Echmophorus occidentalis. Western Grebe. — I have in my collection 

 a skin of one of these birds taken Nov. 9, 1902, at Citizens' Lake, west 

 of Fort Logan and a few miles southwest of Denver, Colorado. Mr. H. 

 G. Smith reports (Nidologist, III, 1896, p. 48) three of this species for 

 Colorado, and Mr. W. W. Cooke also reports (Birds of Colo., p. 191) three 

 of this species for this State. There are no other records for our State as 

 far as the writer knows. 



Prozana Carolina. Sora Rail. — Sept. 2, 1903, I found dead on the 

 surface of the ice near the terminal moraine of Arapahoe Glacier a bird of 

 this species in a rather bad state of decomposition. The altitude of Arapa- 

 hoe Peak (Bull. 274, U. S. Geol. Surv. p. 139) is 13,500 feet, and the place 

 on Arapahoe Glacier, which lies at the foot of Arapahoe Peak, where the 

 bird was found is perhaps 1000 feet less in altitude. 



I desire to ask Mr. W. W. Cooke, or anyone else who is studying bird 

 migrations, whether it is usual for birds of the rail group to migrate at such 

 an altitude. This is about 3,500 feet higher than is indicated in the note 

 by Mr. Cooke (Birds of Colo., p. 199), where he says that it "breeds from 

 Middle Park up the Blue River to about 9,000 feet." If it breeds at such 

 an altitude, I would expect it to move down nearer the plains before start- 

 ing on its southern flight. Possibly we may yet find it breeding at the 

 lakes below Arapahoe Glacier, but thus for neither Judge Junius Hender- 

 son of Boulder, Dr. W. H. Bergtold of Denver nor I, all of whom together 

 studied the birds of that vicinity, have found a living specimen there. — 

 A. H. Felger, Denver, Colorado. 



Notes of Occurrence and Nesting of Certain Species additional to the 

 'Birds of Colorado.' ' — Gallinago delicata. Wilson's Snipe. — Has been 

 found nesting with regularity for the past five years, and in fair numbers, 

 about the marshes and farming region of a locality in Boulder County, 

 ten miles northeast of Boulder City. 



Callipepla squamata. Scaled Partridge. — An abundant resident 

 the year round throughout the farming region on both sides of the Arkan- 

 sas River, from Pueblo east to the Colorado-Kansas State line; there is 

 scarcely a farm that does not have from one to three flocks about the 



1 The Birds of Colorado, by W. W. Cooke. March, 1897. Further notes on 

 the Birds of Colorado, by W. W. Cooke, an appendix, to the above, March, 1898, 

 and a Second Appendix to the Birds of Colorado, by W. W. Cooke, May, 1900. 



