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Title: A Bird-Lover in the West

Author: Olive Thorne Miller
Harriet Mann Miller

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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.

PAGE

I. CAMPING IN COLORADO 3

II. IN THE COTTONWOODS 17

Western wood-pewee. _Contopus richardsonii._
Western house wren. _Troglodytes aedon aztecus._
Towhee. _Pipilo erythrophthalmus._

III. AN UPROAR OF SONG 32

Western meadow-lark. _Sturnella magna neglecta._
Horned lark. _Otocoris alpestris leucolaema._
Yellow warbler. _Dendroica aestiva._
Western wood-pewee. _Contopus richardsonii._
Humming-bird. _Trochilus colubris._
Long-tailed chat. _Icteria