Mar., 1915 
SOME PARK COUNTY, COLORADO, BIRD NOTES 
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Hill and dropping down into the South Park at Jefferson. At Coma, a few 
miles beyond, I changed to a train consisting of an engine and a combination 
coach and baggage ear. Sometimes they take a freight car or two along, but 
not always. The principal crop in the South Park is hay, and the meadows 
were full of stacks. Prom Como to Fairplay the road passes most of the way 
by these fields. 
Fairplay is on the South Platte River, the same stream up which I had 
started from Denver, but here I was close to its head ; the town is not very near 
to the mountains. The first day I was there 1 walked over to Beaver Creek, a 
tributary of the Platte, running nearly parallel to it on the easterly side of a 
low ridge which separates the two streams. I followed this stream up a short 
Fig. 36. Mt. Bross and Mt. Lincoln, from Silverheels. (Bross is the rounded moun- 
tain IN CENTER, AND LINCOLN THE SHARPER PEAK NEXT ON THE RIGHT.) BEAVER CREEK 
and Beaver Ridge in foreground. South Platte River is between Bross and Lin- 
coln and Beaver Ridge. Alma is at foot of Mt. Bross, near left hand side of pic- 
ture, out of sight behind the ridge 
distance and then went to above timber-line on Mt. Silverheels, altogether 
some eight miles and back. My second day at Fairplay was spent closer to 
the town. 
Alma is also situated by the South Platte River, here not a large stream, 
as it is but a few miles to its source, and Buckskin Creek flows through the 
town to the river. Mosquito Creek and Gulch are to the southwest over a low 
divide. The town is at the foot of Mount Bross, which is 14,100 feet high, 
with Mount Lincoln just beyond, and a couple of hundred feet higher. It is 
easy to reach high altitudes in the mountains here, which makes it an excellent 
place to study the life of such regions. 
The life zones represented are the Canadian, Hudsonian, and Arctic- 
