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Title: Birds of the Rockies
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Keyser, Leander Sylvester, 1856-
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ghtly overflowed their banks, making a boggy areaof about an acre as green as green could be; and hereamid the grass and bushes a number of birds found apleasant summer home, among them the dainty hummer.From the snowdrifts, still to be seen in the shelteredgorges of Pikes Peak, the breezes would frequentlyblow down into the nook with a freshness that stimu-lated like wine with no danger of intoxicating; andit was no wonder that the white-crowned sparrows, 103 ONE OF THE SEVEN LAKES PlKES Peak shows dimly in the background, more plainly inthe reflection. Viewed from the peak, the lakes sparkle likeopaline gems in the sun. The waters are so clear that an in-verted world is seen in their transparent depths. The valleyis an elysium for many kinds of birds, most of them describedin the text. The white-crowned spairows love the shores ofthese beautiful lakes, which mirror the blithe forms of the birds.The pine forests of the mountain sides are vocal with therefrains of the hermit thrushes.
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106 BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES Lincolns sparrows, the robins and wrens, and severalother species, found in this spot a pleasant place tolive. One of the narrow valleys led directly up to thebase of the massive cone of the Peak, its stream fed bythe snow-fields shining in the sun. Going around bythe valley of Seven Lakes, I had walked down from thesummit, but nowhere had I seen the tiny hummer untilI reached the green nook just described. Still, hesometimes ascends to an elevation of eleven thousandfeet above the level of the sea. Our feathered dot is gorgeous with his metallic greenupper parts, bordered on the tail with purplish black,his white or grayish under parts, and his gorget ofpurple which gleams in bright, varying tints in thesun. He closely resembles our common ruby-throatedhumming-bird, whose gorget is intense crimson insteadof purple, and who does not venture into the RockyMountain region, but dwells exclusively in the easternpart of North America. It is a little strange that th

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