348 _ ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE WEST. 
dant representative of the Fringillide, although the white-crowned 
was also exceedingly numerous, and both possess very pleasing 
ngs. 
In South Park we found the birds far less numerous than we 
anticipated. In the forests contiguous to it occur most of the 
species already enumerated, except of course the few whose verti- 
eal range is limited to an altitude considerably less than that ot 
the Park. Birds are also numerous along the willow-skirted 
streams, and many birds are met with among the pines that scanti- 
ly cover the low ridges by which the generally level surface of the 
park is diversified. Those properly characteristic of the Park 
itself number less than a dozen species, and are mainly such as 
characterize the Plains. The savanna and bay-winged sparrows; 
. the horned lark, lark finch and meadow lark, the killdeer and 
mountain plovers are by far the most numerous. The savanna 
sparrow was so abundant on Jefferson Creek, that I killed nearly 
twenty one morning in an hour’s shooting and found several nests. 
Near Fairplay, where we spent several days, the black-capped fly- 
catching-warbler ( Wilsonia pusilla) was the most numerous of the 
insectivorous species, the willow thickets along the Platte and 
elsewhere being full of them. An Empidonax was also commons 
as was Richardson’s wood pewee. These with a single pair of 
olive-sided pewees (Contopus borealis) were the only representatives 
of the Tyrannide met with in or about the Park. The Empidonat 
frequented the same localities as the flycatching warbler, and had 
the peculiar habit ( for a flycatcher of this group ) of hiding m the 
thickets so as to render it difficult to capture, like the Acadian fiy- 
catcher of the East, of which it is its western analogue. Several 
nests were found, both of this species and the wood pewee 
white-bellied and cliff swallows were common Hirundines, the latter 
nesting under the eaves of the houses in Fairplay, and the per 
in woodpeckers’ holes. The chestnut-backed snowbird Was 
common, but the white-crowned and Lincoln’s sparrow ween 
far the most numerous of the fringilline birds, as vibe ad bis 
blackbird among the Icteride, the only other species aa 
family observed being the common meadow lark. The wa! 
vireo was the only vireo observed, and this species eve "i 
frequent. The common house wren was abundant, and m 
headed and the beautifal Williamson’s woodpeckers ( Sphyrap frst 
Williamsonii) were more or less common. We here shot ow 
