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BIRDS OP COLORADO. 
to Colorado Springs the mercury fell to thirty below zero F. or 
lower. For two weeks or more, countless thousands of the 
Horned Larks flocked into the towns in search of food, and many 
thousands died of cold and hunger. Around the flour mills and 
elevators they came in clouds. Many persons made special pro¬ 
vision for feeding them, one man giving them more than three 
thousand pounds of grain. Mr. Carter ascribes to this form the 
birds that breed at Breckenridge. 
Page 89. 475. Pica pica hudsonica. American Magpie. 
Mr. Carter found them at Breckenridge breeding almost to 
timber line, at 10,500 feet. 
Page 90. 478b. Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha. Long- 
crested Jay. 
At Boulder, Mr. Blanchard has taken the earliest sets of eggs 
May 11, 1896, May 15, 1897, and May 10, 1898. 
Mr. Carter notes their breeding at Breckenridge. 
Page 90. 484a. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis. Rocky 
Mountain Jay. 
Page 91. 486. Corvus corax sinuatus. American Raven. 
Both breed at Breckenridge. 
Page 91. 487. Corvus cryptoleucus. White-necked Raven. 
There is one in the Carter collection, taken at Dillon in the 
fall of 1872. At that time they were quite common, Mr. Carter 
says, but have since disappeared. 
One was seen by Mr. A. D. Baker in the Wet Mountain 
valley a few years ago. Mr. C. E. Aiken learned at Limon, out 
on the plains east of Colorado Springs, that one was seen there 
about ten years ago. 
Page 92. 488. Corvus americanus. American Crow. 
Has been taken by Mr. Carter at Breckenridge, but is not 
known to breed there. Usually seen singly. 
Page 92. 491. Nucifraga columbiana. Clarke’s Nut¬ 
cracker. 
Breeds at Breckenridge. 
Page 93. 492. Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus. Pinon Jay. 
Mr. Carter has seen them at Breckenridge in the fall, but 
during the summer season has not found them there or in either 
Middle or South Park. 
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