E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25973-h.htm or 25973-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/9/7/25973/25973-h/25973-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/9/7/25973/25973-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed between equal signs was in bold face in the original (=bold face=). BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES by LEANDER S. KEYSER Author of "In Bird Land," Etc. With Eight Full-page Plates (four in color) by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES; Many Illustrations in the Text by BRUCE HORSFALL, and Eight Views of Localities from Photographs With a Complete Check-List of Colorado Birds [Illustration: PLATE I WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER _Sphyrapicus thyroideus_ (Figure on left, male; on right, female)] [Illustration] Chicago · A. C. McClurg and Co. Nineteen Hundred and Two Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1902 Published September 27, 1902 TO KATHERINE AND THE BOYS IN MEMORY OF MANY HAPPY DAYS BOTH INDOORS AND OUT CONTENTS PAGE UP AND DOWN THE HEIGHTS 19 INTRODUCTION TO SOME SPECIES 31 BALD PEAKS AND GREEN VALES 47 BIRDS OF THE ARID PLAIN 83 A PRETTY HUMMER 103 OVER THE DIVIDE AND BACK 117 A ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAKE 139 A BIRD MISCELLANY 149 PLAINS AND FOOTHILLS 177 RAMBLES ABOUT GEORGETOWN 197 HO! FOR GRAY'S PEAK! 223 PLEASANT OUTINGS 259 A NOTABLE QUARTETTE 285 CHECK-LIST OF COLORADO BIRDS 307 INDEX 349 ILLUSTRATIONS FULL-PAGE PLATES PLATE FACING PAGE I. WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER--_Sphyrapicus thyroideus_ _Frontispiece_ II. GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE--_Pipilo chlorurus_; SPURRED TOWHEE--_Pipilo megalonyx_ 47 III. LAZULI BUNTING--_Cyanospiza amoena_ 83 IV. LARK BUNTING--_Calamospiza melanocorys_ 139 V. LOUISIANA TANAGER--_Pyranga ludoviciana_ 177