. The Wilson bulletin . e of the long- and tiresome trip the cool mountainair and the glorious sun chased me out of bed rather early onthe next morning and after the unpacking of my outfit Tsauntered along some of the streets with their cotton-wood Henninger — June Birds of Laramie 9,9: trees, their sand and tbeir general unfinished Finches everywhere and I stood and watched them forhours. In the City Park a block away a Western Meadow-lark was pouring- forth its melody towards the suns goldenorb. A walk of two minutes and I was on the open pra-rie,gophers whisked away and run
. The Wilson bulletin . e of the long- and tiresome trip the cool mountainair and the glorious sun chased me out of bed rather early onthe next morning and after the unpacking of my outfit Tsauntered along some of the streets with their cotton-wood Henninger — June Birds of Laramie 9,9: trees, their sand and tbeir general unfinished Finches everywhere and I stood and watched them forhours. In the City Park a block away a Western Meadow-lark was pouring- forth its melody towards the suns goldenorb. A walk of two minutes and I was on the open pra-rie,gophers whisked away and running on the ground betweentheir burrows, Desert Horned Larks. Slowly I wanderedto tha Union Pacific Ice Plant with its Reservoir and to theLaramie River. The unusually early spring had caused thewaters to rise and the whole valley was overflowed. Deserttlorned Larks and Meadowlarks seemed to be found on allsides and among them I saw my first McCowns few steps farther and I ran on to a pair of the beautiful. Nests of Cliff , Wyo., June 13, 1914. Lark Buntings, a bird that is rather rare in this whole regionwest of the border chain of the Rockies. Now a new sightatt-racted my attention. Over the river a cloud of smallbirds was hovering and I hastened over there almost running 224 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 90. -^ over a prairiedog, who slunk barking- angrily away into hishole. The cloud swooped to my head and with perfect easeI could make out that it was Violet-green Swallows. Newspecies on every side and I was hardly through making agood study of one, then another one would loom up andseemed to make the request to be studied and identified. Atlast I spied some old acquaintances: several Killdeer, oneGreater Yellow-legs standing on guard like a German sen-tinel and another enormous flock of swallows alighting togather up mud—Eave Swallows. Altogether I never did seeas many swallows in all my life as I saw here in Laramie infour weeks. Finally I str
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