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 114 THE CONDOR Vol. XIV 'willowy' note of the Red-shafted Fii'cker. the monotonous mew of the Green- tailed Towhee, the bright song of the Spurred Towhee. the loud calls of Cassin Kingbirds and crested jays, the soft cooing of doves and the harsh croaking of a family of talkative young ravens. On the edge of the grove in a clump of bushes a Western Chipping Sparrov had a nest, and within the grove vere found a number of nesting holes in cott,u- wood trunks or branches. Of the householders. a pair of Sparrow Hawks were feeding young, txvo families of jolly excitable Western House Wrens were sing- ing and fluttering their wings with abandon, and a less demonstrative Chestnut- backed Bluebird perched on a few inches of broken branch close to the trunk of a tree, uttering an occasional low sweet warble. At nest holes high up in a tree trunk we were delighted to discover beautiful Violet-green Swallows going in and Fig. 42. THE GLORIETA OF THE TAOS INDIANS (2ourtesy of Biological Survey out. It was altogether a most lovely place. Big yellow butterflies flutterel through the delicate foliage of the grove, and before mountain thunder storms radiant white cloud piles were seen through green oriel windows. Another beautiful park, in which the stately trees spaced a grassy floor, was in the Conejos River bottoms. just across the line in Colorado. We vere there in early September, when bands of migrating warblers and their associates often passed through the cottonwood tops. As I stood in the shadow breathlessly watching the approach of one such troop, Long-tailed Chickadees worked slowly along from tree to tree stopping to hang head down over some dainty morsel. Golden Pileolated Warblers whipped about, and Audnbons hunted energetically through the branches, while a quiet Townsend sat looking around enquiringly