. Birds of the Rockies . Te-cheer! Te-cheer! > *V4 V BALD PEAKS AND GREEN VALES 51 them rise several hundred feet into the rarefied atmos-phere over an abyss so deep that it has been namedthe Bottomless Pit; The pipits frequently flitted fromrock to rock, teetering their slenderbodies like sandpipers, and chirpingtheir disapproval of my furnished some evidenceof having begun the workof nest construction, althoughno nests were found, as it wasdoubtless still too early inthe season. In some respectsthe pipits are extremely inter-esting, for, while many ofthem breed in remote nor
. Birds of the Rockies . Te-cheer! Te-cheer! > *V4 V BALD PEAKS AND GREEN VALES 51 them rise several hundred feet into the rarefied atmos-phere over an abyss so deep that it has been namedthe Bottomless Pit; The pipits frequently flitted fromrock to rock, teetering their slenderbodies like sandpipers, and chirpingtheir disapproval of my furnished some evidenceof having begun the workof nest construction, althoughno nests were found, as it wasdoubtless still too early inthe season. In some respectsthe pipits are extremely inter-esting, for, while many ofthem breed in remote northernlatitudes, others select the lof-tiest summits of the Rockiesfor summer homes, where they rear theirbroods and scour the alpine heights insearch of food. The following interestingfacts relative to them in this alpine countryare gleaned from Professor Cookes pam-phlet on The Birds of Colorado : In migration they are common through-out the State, but breed only on the loftiestmountains. They arrive on the plains from.
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