Henninger — June Birds of Laramie 227 



mon in Wyoming', the Sage Grouse, just as I missed the Bhie 

 Grouse of the Mountains. 



Now the ground began to rise and the travehng became 

 more laborious. As the echo of one of my shots rolled along 

 the canyon a great Horned Owl flew out of a Juniper-t-ree 

 up to the next canyon. Then came the first pines, one of 

 them showing three holes, one occupied by a Sparrow Hawk, 

 one by a Red-shafted Flicker and one by a swarm of bumble- 

 bees. Here we rested for a while, examined the nest of a 

 Mourning Dove in the crevice of a rock down so. deep that 

 no prowling coyote could ever reach it, and saw two ma- 

 jestic bi-rds come sailing over the crest of the nearest canyon, 

 one of them alighting in a tree and enabling us to see that it 

 was that glorious bird, the Ferruginous Rough-leg, a pair of 

 which had their nest at the chimney rocks near the Colorado 

 boundary 32 kilometres away. The canyon showed some 

 steep sides farther up and in going down one of these we 

 noticed that the Western Robins were to be found even up 

 here 3000 metres high. On a d-ry limb overhanging a deep 

 gorge sat a Townsend Solitaire unfortunately absolutely si- 

 lent and although I had hoped to hear the song of this bird 

 I was disappointed. Loudly scolding against my intrusion 

 Vv'as a Rock Wren and from under my feet there slipped out 

 the beautiful Green-tailed Towhee. While still watching him, 

 right above me I heard the well knowui quavering note of the 

 Warbling Vireo and in the pines at my side Audubon's Wa-r- 

 blers flitted back and forth, Mountain Chickadees and Red- 

 breasted Nuthatches were climbing and hopping from limb 

 to limb. Quite a long time we whiled away here and studied 

 these interesting forms of bird life. 



Then came the descent, I not wishing to climb to the top 

 at this time. Overhead sailed a Turkey Vulture and at some 

 water hole on the plateau I shot a lone Mountain Plover, the 

 only one I saw during my stay and I had been induced to be- 

 lieve through Knight's book that they we-re common all over 

 the Laramie Plains. Tired from this tramp of some 48 kilo- 



