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35. Clirysomitri-s pimw (Wils.) Pine-Finch. 



May _M), a flock of perhaps fifteen individuals were seen. These were 

 in the breeding-dress, and the species undoubtedly spends the summer 

 in the mountains of Colorado. 



36. Loxla curvirostra, L., var. americana, Wils. Red Crossbill. 

 Probably breeds in the pine-region. Several specimens were taken 



during the mouth of June that evidently had raised their young long 

 before. 



37. Leucosticte australis, 'Allen. Graj^-crowned Finch. 



The following interesting notes are given by Dr. Roth rock, who found 

 the species very abundant in the mountains back of Fairplay, in the 

 South Park, and also at Mounts Harvard, Evans, Red Mountains, and 

 elsewhere. These birds are, in habitat, the associates of the White- 

 tailed Ptarmigan, and, like that bird, are never found below the timber- 

 line in summer, ranging thence upward to the summits of the highest 

 peaks. It is never found singly, but usually in flocks of from six to 

 thirty, and rarely far away from large bodies of snow ; its favorite re- 

 sort being the edges of snow- banks, where they find grass-seeds, and 

 also a small black coleopterous insect. Even when found among the 

 scrub-pines, which was rarely the case, it was noticed that they seldom 

 alighted on a tree, but kept constantly on the ground. At all times 

 they were rather shy and suspicious. The specimens taken were all in 

 breeding-dress. 



38. Passerculus savanna, Wils., var. alaudinus, Bon. Western Savan- 

 nah Sparrow. 



Common in this region as elsewhere throughout the West. Generally 

 found in the vicinity of water. 



