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A BIRD-LOVER IN THE WEST
BY
OLIVE THORNE MILLER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1900
Copyright, 1894,
BY H. M. MILLER.
_All rights reserved._
_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
INTRODUCTORY.
The studies in this volume were all made, as the title indicates, in the
West; part of them in Colorado (1891), in Utah (1893), and the remainder
(1892) in what I have called "The Middle Country," being Southern Ohio,
and West only relatively to New England and New York, where most of my
studies have been made.
Several chapters have appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly" and other
magazines, and in the "Independent" and "Harper's Bazar," while others
are now for the first time published.
OLIVE THORNE MILLER.
CONTENTS.
IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
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I. CAMPING IN COLORADO 3
II. IN THE COTTONWOODS 17
Western wood-pewee. _Contopus richardsonii._
Western house wren. _Troglodytes aëdon aztecus._
Towhee. _Pipilo erythrophthalmus._
III. AN UPROAR OF SONG 32
Western meadow-lark. _Sturnella magna neglecta._
Horned lark. _Otocoris alpestris leucolæma._
Yellow warbler. _Dendroica æstiva._
Western wood-pewee. _Contopus richardsonii._
Humming-bird. _Trochilus colubris._
Long-tailed chat. _Icteria virens longicauda._
IV. THE TRAGEDY OF A NEST 42
Long-tailed chat. _Icteria virens longicauda._
V. A FEAST OF FLOWERS 52
VI. A CINDERELLA AMONG FLOWERS 60
VII. CLIFF-DWELLERS IN THE CAÑON 70
Cañon wren. _Catherpes mexicanus conspersus._
American dipper. _Cinclus mexicanus._
IN THE MIDDLE COUNTRY.
VIII. AT FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING 95
Purple grackle. _Quiscalus quiscula._
Mourning dove. _Zenaidura macroura._
Red-headed woodpecker. _Melanerpes erythrocephalus._
Blue jay. _Cyanocitta cristata._
Cardinal grosbeak. _Cardinalis cardinalis._
American robin. _Merula migratoria._
Golden-wing woodpecker. _Colaptes auratus._
House sparrow. _Passer domesticus._
IX. THE LITTLE REDBIRDS 113
Cardinal grosbeak. _Cardinalis cardinalis._
House sparrow. _Passer domesticus._
X. THE CARDINAL'S NEST 119