. Birds of the Rockies . rtling about in the pine woods, allow-ing themselves to be inspected at short range, and fillingthe hollows with their uncanny calls. \Miat a voicetlie mountain jay has ! Nature did a queer thing whenshe put a horse-fiddle into the larynxof this bird— but it is not ours to ask ,■■the reason why, simply to study her ashe is. In marked contrast with the harshcalls of these mountain hobos were theroulades of the sweet and musical ruby-crowned kinglets, which had absented themselvesfrom the lower altitudes, but were abundant inthe timber belts about ten thousand feet up th
. Birds of the Rockies . rtling about in the pine woods, allow-ing themselves to be inspected at short range, and fillingthe hollows with their uncanny calls. \Miat a voicetlie mountain jay has ! Nature did a queer thing whenshe put a horse-fiddle into the larynxof this bird— but it is not ours to ask ,■■the reason why, simply to study her ashe is. In marked contrast with the harshcalls of these mountain hobos were theroulades of the sweet and musical ruby-crowned kinglets, which had absented themselvesfrom the lower altitudes, but were abundant inthe timber belts about ten thousand feet up the Trange and still higher. On the border of the lake, among some gnarlvpines, I stumbled upon a woodpecker that wasentirely new to my eastern eyes — one that Ihad not seen in my previous touring amongthe heights of the Rockies. He was sedu-lously pursuing his vocation — a divinecall, no doubt — of chiselling; frmbsout of the bark of the pine trees,making the chips fly, and produc-ing at intervals that musical. Sapiuckers
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