164 BIRDS OF COLORADO. 
Page 94. 506. Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole. 
Three were seen by Mr. Aiken in Beaver Creek Valley^ 
Fremont County, in May, 1875. 
Page 95. 507. Icterus galbula. Baltimore Oriole. 
Mr. B. L/. Berthoud writes that he has seen the Baltimore 
Oriole occasionally at Golden. 
Page 95. 514a. Coccothraustes vespertinus montan us. 
Western Evening Grosbeak. 
Five of these birds were seen by Mr. P. B. Jones at Beulah, 
August 3, 1897. They remained in that vicinity for over two 
weeks, being seen almost every day. As Mr. Jones has also 
seen them late in May, it is almost certain that they breed in 
Colorado. 
Page 97. 524. Leucosticte tephrocotis. Gray-crowned 
Leucosticte. 
According to Mr. Aiken this species is somewhat irregular 
in its appearance at Colorado Springs, but winters almost every 
year in considerable numbers and some years becomes abund¬ 
ant. A male and a female were taken by Mr. W. A. Sprague 
on November 27, 1895, at Magnolia at 7,500 feet. 
Page 98. 525. Leucosticte atrata. Black Beucosticte. 
A few days ago the present writer had the pleasure of ex¬ 
amining Mr. C. B. Aiken’s large collection of the Leucosticte. 
Mr. Aiken probably has more specimens of atrata than all 
other collections together. They have been taken near Colo¬ 
rado Springs during the winter season and as late as April 4. 
They have been taken during the winters 1875, 1876, 1877, 
1879 During the fall of 1894 Mr. Aiken saw them 
in the Uintah Mountains in Utah near where Dr. F. V. Hayden 
took his specimen in 1870. 
This Hayden specimen has been given the credit of beings 
the first known to science (Ridgway, Bull. Geol. and Geog. 
Surv. Ter. Second Series No. 2, p. 53). Mr. Aiken however 
calls attention to the fact that there is an earlier specimen. 
He says: “It was shot in March, 1870, at Sherman, Wyo., 
[just over the Colorado line] by J. Denchman and sent by ex¬ 
press to Mr. Holden in Chicago, together with about sixty 
specimens of L. tephrocotis —all in the flesh. Mr. Holden and 
myself examined this specimen carefully on the arrival of the 
shipment and as it was apparently an immature bird, we con¬ 
cluded that it was the young of tephrocotis, though the proba- 
