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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
country did not reach as high an elevation as at onr Alt. Zirkel camp, and 
there were many open grassy slopes. It was beantifnl about there, and we 
enjoyed onr few days’ stay. A good find here was a family of Three-toed 
Woodpeckers nesting close by. of which more in its proper place. On the 
28th we crossed the Divide and dropped nearly 4000 feet down to Steamboat 
Sj^rings, altitude 6680 feet, at this place making a connection with the route 
followed on my trip in 1907. I decided to drive from here to Denver v'a 
Ilerthond Pass. This route took me over some of my 1907 ground, and over 
some that was new. 1 had never been over the Gore Pass in the Park Range, 
and from Sulphur Springs to Denver it was all new. As I wished to reach 
Denver by a certain date we traveled rather steadily and had little or no time 
for collecting, onr observations being confined to such things as we saw along 
the road. We reached Denver early on the morning of the 8th, having 
camped at Arvada, a few miles outside of the city, since noon of the previous 
day, jjacking up the outfit so that there would be as little as possible of that 
sort of work to do when we did get into town. 1 went direct to a sale stable, 
where the wagon and horses were sold by auction the next day, while the 
balance of the outfit was shipped home by freight. 
One thing which I noticed all through the trip was the great scarcity 
of such birds as warblers and vireos. As these notes show, we saw hut few 
t)f these birds, either species or individuals. 1 do not know how to account 
for it. 1 think we are both good enough collectors and observers to have 
found the birds if they had been present. They should have been at .some, 
at least, of the localities we visited. 
1. Colymbus nigricollis californicus. Eared Grebe. This species was 
seen at three localities in the Xorth Park. At a lake a few miles south of 
Lake John at least two were seen. At Lake John they were by far the most 
common of the water birds, and 1 estimated that at least 90 per cent of the 
water birds seen were grebes. They were nesting in a patch of rushes at the 
southeast corner (H' the lake, where we found at least twenty nests close 
together, and the birds seemed to have but just begun laying. The largest 
set in this group consisted of but three eggs, which were perfectly fresh. 
Some little distance from these nests we found another which contained nine 
well incubated eggs with the eggs covered, all the others having been uncov- 
ered. \\T saw many of the birds swimming about as we pushed the boat 
around through the rushes. This was July 7. On the 17th we saw two grebes 
with hroods of young on a small lake on a ranch .southeasterly from our Aft. 
Zirkel camp. 
2. Larus delawarensis. Ring-billed Gull. A few seen about Lake 
John July 6. 
3. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. Black Tern. 'I'hree or four 
Black 'I'erns were seen flying about the rushes on Lake John, July 7. \A'e 
searched everywhere for their nests, but unsuccessfully. 
4. Mergus americanus. Alerganser. A female of this species was 
seen above the falls in Red Canyon, July 1. 
•L Anas platyrhynchos. Alallard. Alay 25 1 flushed a male from a 
slough between Cedar Point and River Bend; two Alallards were seen July 
5 at a ranch on Red Canyon Creek, and a few were seen on Lake John on the 
6th. Cary mentions finding them breeding at this place. 
