. Birds of the Rockies . Plate IV Lark Bunting— Calamospiza Dwlanocoriis(Upper figure, male ; lower, female) A ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAKE YOU will find a small lake just about a milefrom Follow the road leading out thisway — indicating the direction — until voucome to a red gate. The lakeis private property, butyou can go right in, asyou dont shoot. No onewill drive vou out. Ithink you will find it aninteresting place for birdstudy. The foregoing is whatmy landlord told me onemorning at Buena did I waste time in find-ing the way to the lake, asmall sheet of water, as clearrs crystal,
. Birds of the Rockies . Plate IV Lark Bunting— Calamospiza Dwlanocoriis(Upper figure, male ; lower, female) A ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAKE YOU will find a small lake just about a milefrom Follow the road leading out thisway — indicating the direction — until voucome to a red gate. The lakeis private property, butyou can go right in, asyou dont shoot. No onewill drive vou out. Ithink you will find it aninteresting place for birdstudy. The foregoing is whatmy landlord told me onemorning at Buena did I waste time in find-ing the way to the lake, asmall sheet of water, as clearrs crystal, embowered in thelovely park lying between to\vering, snow-clad mountains. One mightalmost call the spot a birds Arcadia. Brewers Blackbirds An interestingplace for birdstudy. 140 BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES In no place, in all my tramping among the Rockies,did I find so many birds in an equal area. In the green, irrigated meadow bordering one side ofthe sheet of water, I was pleased to find a number ofBrewers blackbirds busily gathering food in the wetgrass for their young. And who or what are Brewersblackbirds ? In the East, the purple and bronzedgrackles, or crow blackbirds, are found in great abun-dance ; but in Colorado these birds are replaced by Brewersblackbirds, which closely resemble their eastern kinsfolk,athough not quite so large. The iridescence of theplumage is somewhat different in the two species, butin both the golden eyeballs show white at a I first saw a couple of Brewers blackbirds stalkingfeatly about on a lawn at Manitou, digging worms andgrubs out of the sod, I simply put them down in mynotebook as bronzed or purple grackles — an error thathad to be corrected afterwards, on more careful exami-nation. The mistake shows how cl
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