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Our journey to South Park was of great interest, not only for its scenic 

 features but for the transitions in the fauna and flora as we advanced to 

 higher altitudes. We reached the base of Mount Lincoln, at the northern 

 end of the Park, July 19, where we camped for a week, extending our collect- 

 ing trip to above timber line. On the top of Mount Lincoln we found the 

 pipit (Anthus rubescens) breeding, and collected specimens of a new species 

 of rosy finch (Leucosticte australis), and at timber line, in the taluses ob- 

 tained about thirty specimens of a new pica (Ochotona saxatilis Bangs, 

 described in 1899 from the specimens we collected in 1871). We returned 

 from South Park by way of Pike's Peak, Manitou Springs and the Garden 

 of the Gods. 1 We remained here nearly a week collecting and thence pro- 

 ceeded along the outer base of the foothills northward to Denver, where 

 we arrived August 18, the trip having occupied a little more than six weeks. 



Our next collecting point was Cheyenne, where we spent ten days, and 

 then Bennett and I (Mr. Bliss having returned to Cambridge) went direct 

 to Ogden, Utah. This was our base for the next seven weeks, from which 

 we made excursions to the northern end of Great Salt Lake. Here we found 

 avocets, stilts, phalaropes and other marsh and shore birds plentiful, and 

 an abundance of ducks, terns and gulls. We also obtained many fishes, 

 mollusks and crayfishes. 



October 9 we took the train east to Green River, where we remained 

 till the 17th. Here we also secured many fishes from pools and streams, 

 and made a considerable collection of fossil fishes from the famous Green 

 River shales, but high winds, ice and snow rendered collecting difficult. 



From Green River we went to Fort Fred Steele, arriving at 3 a. m., 

 October 18. This was the point we had selected from which to make our 

 departure into the mountains for big game. We soon found, however, that 

 this plan was impracticable, owing to the expense and the uncertainty of 

 the results. Fortunately at this juncture I met Messrs. Ferris and Hunt, 

 professional hunters, who were supplying game to the eastern markets as a 

 business. I soon made an agreement with them to furnish a specified 

 number of the various kinds of such big game as could be obtained in this 

 region, for a certain price per head, to be delivered to us at Percy, a station 

 on the Union Pacific Railroad about thirty miles east of Fort Steele. 



After packing and shipping the collections made at Fort Steele, which 

 included among other things several boxes of fossils, we went to Percy, 

 where we remained from October 20 till December 18. Percy consisted 

 at this time of the railway station, a small hotel, and one or two occupied 

 log-cabins and many vacant ones, — all that was left of what a few years 



1 There were only a few log-cabins and a post-office at the present site of Colorado Springs, and 

 Manitou was merely a name. 



