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seen last about four miles from Fairplay. The altitude at which it was seen 
varied from 9,100 to 9,800 feet. 
Euphagus cyanocephalus. Brewer Blackbird. Common everywhere and 
noted every day. They were always to be seen about Fairplay and Alma. 
Leucosticte australis. Brown-capped Rosy Finch. Seen September 24, 26, 
and 28, in South Mosquito Gulch, on Buckskin Ridge, and on Mt. Lincoln, 
always at high elevations, timber-line or higher. At about 12,000 feet in South 
Mosquito I found a flock of 15 or 20. Several of them worked down a little 
lower and perched in some dead trees, in the topmost branches, something I 
do not recall having seen these birds do before, though when at lower eleva- 
tions in winter I have seen them in low bushes or trees. One specimen se- 
cured. 
Fig. 37. Foxtail pines in Buckskin Gulch, three miles above Alma, at about 11,500 
FEET ALTITUDE j , , f j ( ._ j t , 
Spinus pinus. Pine Siskin. A few seen near Fairplay, September 20, and 
at least one in Mosquito Gulch, not far from Alma, September 25. 
Passer domesticus. House Sparrow. A flock of 20 or 30 seen in Alma. 
1 think they were also present at Fairplay. 
Pooecetes gramineus confinis. Western Vesper Sparrow. September 17, 
when on the train en route to Fairplay, a good many sparrows were seen in 
the hayfields from the car windows. One of these was positively identified as 
a Vesper Sparrow. It is quite possible that some of these birds may have been 
Savannah Sparrows, and very likely other species were present. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. Common in 
the willows along the streams near Alma and Fairplay, both adult and imma- 
ture birds. One of the latter collected September 25 had a little patch of black 
