THE BIRDS OF EL PASO COUNTY, 

 COLORADO 



AREA INCLUDED IN THIS LIST. 



The area covered by this list is the whole of El Paso 

 County, while various notes are given for points without the 

 boundaries of the County, but adjacent thereto, especially that 

 portion of the Pikes Peak Region in which are situated the 

 Seven Lakes. 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



More than two-thirds of El Paso County is a rolling 

 prairie country, most of the eastern portion of which is dry, 

 with few or no permanent streams, though there are water- 

 courses in which water is found at times, and. various springs. 

 The exceptions to this statement are Fountain and Monument 

 Creeks, the former heading in the mountains above Ute Pasb, 

 and the latter on the Divide at Palmer Lake and in the foot- 

 hills west of there, and emptying into the Fountain at Colo- 

 rado Springs. These streams flow in a somewhat southeasterly 

 course along the east base of the foothills. As shown on the 

 map, the Fountain also receives other tributaries from the 

 west, which have their sources in the mountains. 



The extreme western portion of the County is mountain- 

 ous, occupied by the Pikes Peak Range, which culminates in 

 the well known Pikes Peak, once the objective point of the gold 

 seekers of 1859, now that of the tourists of the twentieth 

 century, who may reach its summit, over 14,000 feet above 

 sea level, by rail. Part of this range is in El Paso County, 

 and part in Teller County, and the boundary lines between 

 the two counties were so drawn that it is difficult to write 

 of that portion of our area without, at times, including a part 

 of Teller County. 



This mountain region is rugged, and includes besides 

 Pikes Peak, a number of summits ranging from 11,000 to 



