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BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES 



able habitat on the rocky, 

 shores of Green 

 pigeon hawk, I 

 note, had set- 

 and was watching 

 the only fly in 

 enchanted 

 flycatcher 



copse some distance up 

 way. I trudged up the valley 

 above Clear Lake, and found 

 meadow, with clumps of bushes 

 in which a few white-crowned 

 Wilson's warblers had taken up 

 dwelling; but the wind was 

 ingly from the snow-capped 

 many miles away, and there 

 aspect about the vale. The cold 

 the birds as it did myself, for 

 few bars of song in a half- 

 ing was approaching, and the _- 

 the human ones, I mean 

 down the valleys and canons 

 town, which they reached at 

 thankful for the privilege of 

 day among their winged com- f f 

 Following a wagon road, the 



forest;-locked 

 Lake. A 

 regretted to 

 tied among the bushes, 

 for quarry, making 

 1 the amber of the 

 spot. A least 

 flitted about in the 

 a shallow run- 

 about a mile 

 a green, open 

 here and there, 

 sparrows and 

 at least a temporary 

 blowing shiver- 

 mountains not 

 was still a wintry 

 evidently affected 

 they lisped only a 

 hearted way. Even- 

 two travellers 

 started on the trail 

 toward George- 

 , dusk, tired, but 

 spending an idyllic 

 panions. 

 next day, across . a 



Pigeon Hawk 



" Watching for quarry " 



