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 Mar., 1915 SOME PARK COUNTY, COLORAl)O, BIRD NOTES 91 Hill and dropping down into the South Park at Jefferson. At Coma, a few miles beyond, I changed to a train consisting of an engine and a combination coach and baggage car. Sometimes they take a freight car or two along, but not always. The principal crop in the South Park is hay, and the meadows were full of stacks. From Como to Fairplay the road passes most of the way by these fields. Fairplay is on the South Platte River, the same stream up which ] had started from Denver, but here I was close to its head; the town is not very near to the mountains. The first day ] was there I walked over to Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Platte, running nearly parallel to it on the easterly side of a low ridge which separates the two streams. I followed this stream up a short Fig. 36. MT. BROSS AND MT. LIrCOL, FROM SILYERIIEEL8. (BRos8 IS THE ROUNDED TAIN IN CEIVTER, AND LIcOr THE SHARPER PEAK NEXT ON THE RIGHT.) BEAVER CREEK AND BEAVER RIDGE Ilq FOREGROUND. SOUTH PLATTE RIVER 15 BETrEE BROSS AND LIN- COLN A.I) BEAVER RIDGE. ALMA IS AT FOOT OF IT. BROSS qEAR LEFT HAND SIDE OF PIC- TURE, OUT OF SIGHT BEHIND THE RIDGE distance and then went to above timber-line on Mt. Silverheels, altogether some eight miles and back. My second day at Fairplay was spent closer to the town. Alma is also situated by the South Platte River, here not a large stream, as it is but a few miles to its source, and Buckskin Creek flows through the town to the river. Mosquito Creek and Gulch are to the southwest over a low divide. The town is at the foot of Mount Bross, which is 14,100 feet high, with Mount Lincoln just beyond, and a couple of hundred feet higher. It is easy to reach high altitudes in the mountains here, which makes it an excellent place to study the life of such regions. The life zones represented are the Canadian. Hudsonian, and Arctic-