. Birds of the Rockies . mountains, upthe Grand Canon of the Arkansas River, through theRoyal Gorge, past the smiling, sunshiny upper moun-tain vallevs, over the Divide at Tennessee Pass, andthen down the western slopes to the next stopping-place,w hich was Red Cliff, a village nestling in a deep moun-tain ravine at the junction of Eagle River and TurkeyCreek. The following day, a little after peep o dawn,I was out on the street, and was impressed by a songcoming from the trees on the acclivity above the that is a new song, I said to myself; and yetit seems to have a familiar ai
. Birds of the Rockies . mountains, upthe Grand Canon of the Arkansas River, through theRoyal Gorge, past the smiling, sunshiny upper moun-tain vallevs, over the Divide at Tennessee Pass, andthen down the western slopes to the next stopping-place,w hich was Red Cliff, a village nestling in a deep moun-tain ravine at the junction of Eagle River and TurkeyCreek. The following day, a little after peep o dawn,I was out on the street, and was impressed by a songcoming from the trees on the acclivity above the that is a new song, I said to myself; and yetit seems to have a familiar air. A few minutes of hardclimbing brought me near enough to get my glass onthe little Ivrist, and then I found it was only the house-wren ! How could you be led astray by so familiar asong.^ you inquire. Well, that is the humiliatingpart of the incident, for I have been listening to thehouse-wrens gurgling sonata for some twenty years —rather more than less — and should have recognized it 117 118 BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES.
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