. Birds of the Rockies . htly 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 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 PiKES Peak sho7vs dimly in the hachground, more plainltj inthe rejlection. Viewed from t
. Birds of the Rockies . htly 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 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 PiKES Peak sho7vs dimly in the hachground, more plainltj inthe rejlection. 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 tmlleyis an elymim for many kinds of birds, most of them describedin the text. The white-crowned sparrows love the shores ofthese beautiful lakes, which mirror the blithe forms of the pine forests of the mountain sides are vocal with therefrains of the hermit 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 vallevs 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 thesunniiit, 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
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