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the Florida Gallinule were added to the Hst of Colorado Birds 

 by these distinguished ornithologists. 



W. C. Ferrill and Horace G. Smith did a certain amount 

 of collecting in the County while doing work for the State 

 Historical and Natural History Society, making some addi- 

 tions to our list. 



E. R. Warren, the junior author of this paper, came to 

 Colorado Springs the fall of 1881, but did no bird work until 

 the next winter, and then did considerable collecting during 

 the winters of 1882-83 and 1883-84. This was dropped for 

 several years, partly owing to absence from the city, and not 

 taken up again here until some dozen or so years ago, since 

 which time he has been making observations and collecting 

 somewhat steadily. 



William Lutley Sclater came to Colorado Springs in the 

 autumn of 1906 to take the position of Director of the Museum 

 of Colorado College, retaining this office until the spring of 

 1909, and spending most of the College year in Colorado 

 Springs, but his summers at his home in England. Though 

 Mr. Sclater did but little field work while here, it was through 

 his influence that the Aiken Collection of Birds was pur- 

 chased for Colorado College, and it was during his residence 

 here that "The History of the Birds of Colorado" was writ- 

 ten, a work which, though by one who had been in the state 

 but comparatively little, shows a great comprehension of the 

 a\ ifauna of Colorado, and represents a great amount of labor 

 on his part in not only going over all the specimens at his 

 command, but also in looking up all the records and literature 

 bearing on the subject. Colorado bird students owe Mr. 

 Sclater a debt of gratitude for the excellent work he has done. 



A number of others have made brief stays in the region 

 and published popular articles or books on our birds, while 

 there are some local observers, who, while taking much inter- 

 est in observing our birds, have published little or nothing 

 about them. 



