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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
Cooney, Catron County. A mining town on Mineral Creek, 7 miles from its 
junction with the San Francisco River and 13 miles east of the Arizona line. Barrell 
lived here in 1889 and contributed a list of the breeding birds, and also migration 
reports for the spring and fall of 1889. 
Copper Canyon, Socorro County. One of the principal canyons in the Mag¬ 
dalena Mountains. Explored by Goldman during part of August 27-September 5, 
1909; collections made from 8,200 feet to the summit of the range at 10,000 feet. 
Copperton, Valencia County. A lumber camp in the Zuni Mountains; most of 
the collections labeled Copperton were made at Agua Fria Spring, 7 miles to the south 
at 8,000 feet. Hollister, July 17-24, 1905. 
Corona, Lincoln County. A station on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 70 miles 
southwest of Santa Rosa, at the foothills of the Gallinas Mountains; 6,700 feet. 
Gaut, October 13-15 and 23-25, 1902. 
Costilla Pass, Taos County. As used by Howell, this means a pass just north 
of Costilla Peak and 6 miles south of the Colorado line; 10,000 feet; September 25 
and 27, 1903. The Costilla Pass of Bailey’s notes refers to the pass over the divide 
between the Red River and the Costilla River, 15 miles south of the Colorado line, 
and 8 miles west of the Costilla Pass marked on the land office map; summit of the 
Pass, 11,350 feet. Baileys, August 18, 1904. 
Costilla River, Taos County. At the mouth of Comanche Creek, 8 miles from 
the Colorado line; 9,400 feet. Reached by the Baileys, August 18, 1904. The next 
day they went up stream 10 or 12 miles to 10,700 feet at a point nearly due north of 
Costilla Peak and east of Culebra Peak, and Bailey climbed Culebra Peak August 20, 
after which they retraced their course down stream August 21, and camped August 
21-24 at Beaver Pond, 5 miles below the mouth of Comanche Creek, 9,400 feet; then 
continued on down the river, reaching the town of Costilla August 25, going thence 
northwest into Colorado. 
Cottonwood Pass, San Juan County. Near the north end of the Chuska 
Mountains S miles northeast of Crystal. Bailey camped October 7-11, 1908, at a 
little lake near the Pass at about 8,800 feet. 
Cottonwood Spring, Sierra County. On Cuchillo Creek, 12 miles west of 
Elephant Butte on the Rio Grande. Ligon, May 12 and June 10, 1913. 
Cowles, San Miguel County. A post office on the Pecos, above the junction 
of the Mora and Pecos, about twenty miles above Pecos Town, at about 8,200 feet. 
[Ligon, July 10-18, 1919.] 
Cow Spring, near the line of Grant and Luna Counties. About 20 miles south 
of Silver City. [Ligon, May 6, 1920.] 
Coyote Creek, Mora County. The largest tributary of the Mora River, 
followed by the Baileys from a point 7 miles east of Mora up stream to Black Lake, 
September 7-10, 1903; they camped September 7-9 on the creek, 8 miles north of 
Guadalupita, 8,000 feet, and next day at the outlet of Black Lake, 8,400 feet. 
Coyote Creek, Rio Arriba County. A branch of the Puerco River. The 
Baileys went up the canyon of this stream in climbing the Gallinas Mountains in 
early October, 1904, and made various camps near the town of Coyote, October 5-12, 
1904, 7,000 to 8,500 feet. 
Cuba, Sandoval County. On the Rio Puerco. [Ligon, many times from 
1916 to 1920]. 
