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Title: Birds of the Rockies

Author: Leander Sylvester Keyser

Release Date: July 5, 2008 [eBook #25973]

Language: English

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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 RO