. Wild life on the Rockies. with a defiant gesture, and went onenergetically eating. In the midst of this, some-thing alarmed him, and he flew swiftly away anddid not come back. Was this crow a pet that hadconcluded to strike out for himself ? Or had hismimicry or his habit of laying hold of whateverpleased him caused him to appropriate this wordfrom bigger folk ? Go where you will over the Rockies and thebirds will be with you. One day I spent severalhours on the summit of Longs Peak, and whilethere twelve species of birds alighted or passednear enough for me to identify them. One ofthese bir
. Wild life on the Rockies. with a defiant gesture, and went onenergetically eating. In the midst of this, some-thing alarmed him, and he flew swiftly away anddid not come back. Was this crow a pet that hadconcluded to strike out for himself ? Or had hismimicry or his habit of laying hold of whateverpleased him caused him to appropriate this wordfrom bigger folk ? Go where you will over the Rockies and thebirds will be with you. One day I spent severalhours on the summit of Longs Peak, and whilethere twelve species of birds alighted or passednear enough for me to identify them. One ofthese birds was an eagle, another a humming-bird. On a June day, while the heights were morethan half covered with winters snow, I cameacross the nest of a ptarmigan near a drift and atan altitude of thirteen thousand feet above sea-level. The ptarmigan, with their home abovetree-line, amid eternal snows, are wonderfully self-reliant and self-contained. The ouzel, too, is self-poised, indifferent to all the world but his brook, 158. (0o6 ani> §bomt Otfytt Q$Crb* and showing an appreciation for water greater, Ithink, than that of any other landsman. Thesebirds, the ptarmigan and the ouzel, along withthe willow thrush, who sings out his melody amidthe shadows of the pines, who puts his woodsinto song,—these birds of the mountains arewith me when memory takes me back a solitaryvisitor to the lonely places of the Rockies. The birds of the Rockies, as well as the biggerfolk who live there, have ways of their own whichdistinguish them from their kind in the sing with more enthusiasm, but with thesame subtle tone that everywhere tells that all isright with the world, and makes all to the mannerborn glad to be alive. Nothing delights me more than to come acrossa person who is interested in trees; and I havelong thought that any one who appreciates treesor birds is one who is either good or great, orboth. I consider it an honor to converse with onewho knows the birds and the tree
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