. Bird lore . 1. PIPIT, winter 3. SPRAGUES PIPIT 2. PIPIT, summer 4. ALASKA YELLOW WAGTAIL 5. DIPPER(One-half natural size) A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OFOfficial Organ of The Audubon Societies. Vol. XVIII July—August, 1916 No. 4 The Birds of Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado By EDWARD R. WARREN, Colorado Springs. Colo. COLORADO SPRINGS is one of the most fortunate places in thecountry in its possession of a system of parks which cities of manytimes its size would be proud of and glad to own. We owe thislargely to the generosity of one of the founder
. Bird lore . 1. PIPIT, winter 3. SPRAGUES PIPIT 2. PIPIT, summer 4. ALASKA YELLOW WAGTAIL 5. DIPPER(One-half natural size) A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OFOfficial Organ of The Audubon Societies. Vol. XVIII July—August, 1916 No. 4 The Birds of Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado By EDWARD R. WARREN, Colorado Springs. Colo. COLORADO SPRINGS is one of the most fortunate places in thecountry in its possession of a system of parks which cities of manytimes its size would be proud of and glad to own. We owe thislargely to the generosity of one of the founders of the town, one may say thefounder, General Wm. J. Palmer, who, in the last years of his life, gave twolarge tracts of land, laid out in completed parks, besides roads and mountaintrails, to Colorado Springs, together with funds toward their maintenance fora certain period—a magnificent gift. The present article has to do with butone of these tracts, known as Monument Valley Park, a long, narrow strip onthe west side of the city, traversed its entire length by Monument Creek,which flows in a southerly direction. The length of this park, from end to endin an airline, is a trifle over two miles, its greatest wi
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