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BIRDS OF COLORADO. 
is nothing to indicate whether these birds reached Grand 
Junction from eastern Colorado or have come eastward from 
Utah. The distance is less from where they occur in Utah, and 
the mountain nasses much lower. 
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Page 100. 534. Passerina nivalis. Snowflake. 
Mr. Carter took one December 28, 1894, between Brecken- 
ridge and Middle Park at about 8,000 feet. 
Page 100. 536a. Calcarius lapponicus alascensis. Alaskan 
Longspur. 
This is the new name for the form of the Lapland Longspur 
that occurs in Colorado. It was seen but once by Mr. Carter at 
Breckenridge, where he took one, March 21, 1894, in the midst 
of a snowstorm. One nas been seen by Mr. Baker in the Wet 
Mountain valley at over 8,000 feet. 
Page 101. 540a. Pooecetes gramineus confinis. Western 
Vesper Sparrow. 
Page 101. 542b. Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus. 
Western Savanna Sparrow. 
Both breed at Breckenridge. 
Page 102. Add. 548. Ammodramus leconteii. LeConte’s 
Sparrow. 
The rarest find in the Carter collection is a specimen of this 
Sparrow, taken at Breckenridge October 24, 1886. This is the 
first record for Colorado, and its occurrence in the mountains 
three hundred miles west of its usual prairie home is of course 
accidental. This is the only record in the United States west of 
the main range, except the one noted by Merrill, Auk, XV. 1898, 
p. 16, taken in Idaho. Though Merrill’s bird was reported first, 
Carter’s was taken many years the earlier. 
Page 102. 552a. Chondestes grammacus strigatus. West¬ 
ern Lark Sparrow. 
Breeds at Breckenridge. 
Page 102. 553. Zonotrichia querula. Harris’s Sparrow. 
The second record for Colorado of this bird is the one seen 
by the present writer at Holly, May 10, 1898. It was migrating 
in company with White-crowned Sparrows. 
Page 102. 554. Zonotrichia leucophrys. White-crowned 
Sparrow. 
Breeds at Breckenridge. 
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