May, 1912 
SOME NORTH-CENTRA!. COLORADO BIRD NOTES 
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Plover that afternoon, and wished very much to photograph it, but the wind was 
blowing' a hurricane, and we did not attempt it. 
The 30th we drove over a rolling prairie country, populated by millions of 
prairie dogs, as indeed had been the region through which we had already passed. 
It was a dry barren country, and bird life was pretty scarce. Perhaps the most 
interesting things we saw that day were three antelope, the first my companions 
had ever seen wild. In the old days 1 suppose one would have seen hundreds, if 
not thousands, in that same region, to say nothing of the buffalo. • 
There were a few ranches by the water courses : these were the older ones : 
other newer ranches had been taken up by settlers who hoped to make a go of dry 
Eig. ,30. COLONY OF CLIFF SWALLOWS ON THE SANDSTONE BLUFF FORMING 
THE BANK OF PAWNEE CREEK, WELD COUNTY, COLORADO 
farming. These were dependent on wells for water, and some did not even have 
the well, but hauled their water from the wells of tho.sc who were more fortunate. 
.About some of the old ranches birds were fairly abundant, as there were usually 
.some trees. We camped that night near a well, which we emptied by the time we 
left next morning. We traveled on the 31st over country similar to that of th? 
day before, varying the monotony of the proceedings by digging out a kangan o 
rat. It was captured after an exciting chase, and caged, and Rockwell carrie l 
it to Denver with him that evening, intending to immortalize it with the camera. 
Instead, when he posed it, and asked it to look pleasant, it died of fright. 
We reached Fort Morgan late that afternoon, just in time to load Rockwell 
