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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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Plate V Louisiana Tanager—Pyranga ludoviciana (Upper figure, male; lower, female) T PLAINS AND FOOTHILLS HE foregoing chapters contain a recital of ob-servations made in the neighborhood of Colo-rado Springs and in trips on the plains andamong the mountains in that latitude. Two years later— that is, in 1901 — the ramblers good angel againsmiled upon him and made possible another tour amongthe Colorado mountains. This time he made Denver,instead of Colorado Springs, the centre of operations;nor did he go alone, his companion being an active boyof fourteen who has a penchant for Butterflies, whilethat of the writer, as need scarcely be said, is for theBirds — in our estimation, the two cardinal Bs of theEnglish language. Imagine two inveterate ramblers,then, with two such enchanting hobbies, set loose on theColorado plains and in the mountains, with the prospectof a month of uninterrupted indulgence in their manias !In the account of my first visit, most of the speciesmet with

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