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gray-headed junco for this expedition was seen. He 

 had come to town for his breakfast, and was flitting 

 about on the lawns and in the trees bordering the street, 

 helping himself to such dainties as pleased his palate. 

 It may be said here that the gray-headed j uncos were 

 observed at various places all along the way from 

 Georgetown to Green Lake and far above that body of 

 water. Not so with the broad- tailed hummers, which 

 were not seen above about eight thousand five hundred 

 feet, while the last warbling vireo of the day was seen 

 and heard at an altitude of nine thousand feet, possibly 

 a little more, when he decided that the air was as rare 

 as was good for his health. 



A short distance up the canon of the west branch of 

 Clear Creek, a new kind of flycatcher was first heard, 

 and presently seen with my glass. He sat on a cliff or 

 flitted from rock to bush. He uttered a sharp call, 

 " Cheep, cheep, cheep " ; his under parts were bright 

 yellow, his upper parts yellow-olive, growing darker on 

 the crown, and afterwards a nearer view revealed dark 

 or dusky wings, yellowish or gray wing-bars, and yellow 

 eye-rings. He was the western flycatcher, and bears 

 close likeness to our eastern yellow-breasted species. 

 Subsequently he was quite frequently met with, but 

 never far above the altitude of Georgetown. 



In the same canon a beautiful Macgillivray's warbler 

 was observed, and two water-ousels went dashing up the 



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