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refuge from a cold storm, and perished from the cold, possi- 

 bly freezing, and either thawed and dried out very gradually, 

 or else that the toes were so much contracted that the feet 

 did not lose their hold on the wire when the bird died. 



Stellula calliope. Calliope Hummingbird.- 



Rare; but one record for the County, which was also the 

 first for Colorado of the species. This was an adult male 

 which was found dead in Cheyenne Caiion, July 25, 1897, by 

 a Mrs. Martin, who brought it to Aiken. It was made into 

 a skin and taken away by the finder. 



Tsrrannus tyrannus. Kingbird. 



Summer resident; common. Arrives from the 5th to the 

 13th of May, and departs about September 7. 



The Kingbird is common in the region in the summer, in 

 the lower portions, ranging up onto the Divide. Its favorite 

 breeding places are in the cottonwoods and other trees along 

 the watercourses, and on the plains it nests wherever it can 

 find suitable places. Keyser found a nest near Ramah con- 

 taining four eggs, in the same tree with the nest of an Arkan- 

 sas Kingbird and a Mourning Dove. He also found other 

 nests about a mile away. Between Pueblo and Colorado 

 Springs, August 2 and 3, 1909, it was seen frequently, but was 

 not as common as the Arkansas Kingbird. The young are 

 flying about the first week in July. 



One August day an old bird was seen to feed its young 

 grasshoppers in a Colorado Springs street, catching the insects 

 on the ground in a vacant lot where they were plenty, and 

 carrying them into the tree where the youngster was perched, 

 beating them there on the branches, and then giving them to 

 its baby. 



At Ramah Aiken witnessed the attack of some Kingbirds 

 on a Swainson's Hawk, which is described in his notes as 



