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acteristic species up to at least 7000 feet, but much more common between 5000 

 and 6000 feet. Frequents open scrub-oak country in well watered localities and 

 breeds late in June and in July, usually selecting a scrub-oak in dense growth as a 

 nesting site. 



Piranga ludoviciana. lyouisiana Tanager. Summer resident, not uncommon. 

 Typically a bird of the higher altitudes, where it frequents the heavy spruce timber 

 during the breeding season. Occasionally seen as low as 6500 feet, in pinyon 

 timber during June and July but not by any means common. Much more in evi- 

 dence in the lower portions of the County during the fall migration, when they are 

 quite common. During the return movement in spring they are not so con- 

 spicuous. 



Piranga erythromelas. Scarlet Tanager. Mr. Sullivan writes, "Only one 

 seen; date June 4, 1904. The red and black markings w^ere too plain to admit of 



nf:st and Eggs of greevtaileo towhee in service-berry bush 



doubt. I hardly think they breed." This record while an exceedingly strange 

 one is well supported by Prof. Cooke's record of 2 birds taken at New Castle dur- 

 ing the spring of 1892, which is only about 70 miles up the river from Grand 

 Junction. 



Progne subis. Purple Martin. Summer resident, occurrence doubtful. Prof. 

 Cooke says, "As common in Utah as in the east and not uncommon in the extreme 

 western part of Colorado." And again, Miss Myra Eggleston writes that the 

 Purple Martins are common at Grand Junction, but do not breed in town, prefer- 

 ring the banks of the river not far distant." Mr. Sullivan takes issue with this 

 latter statement and says that extensive inquiry among the older residents of Grand 

 Junction failed to reveal a single one who had ever seen this bird there, and that in 

 his own observations covering about three years he had only seen it once. He 

 closes a lengthy and interesting discussion of the subject by saying, "Therefore on 



