Counting marmots…
IN the western part of Gunnison county, Colorado, between the slope of Ragged mountain and Muddy creek, is a high, rolling plateau, of an elevation of 8ooo feet or more. In amongst the hollows of this plateau are many little lakes or ponds, varying in size from fifty to sixty feet in diameter to a hundred yards or more. During the past three seasons I have been about this country very much, surveying, and every season have seen sandhill cranes (Grus mexicana) flying overhead and heard their melodious ? notes, but did not find a nest until June 5, 1903, when, while chopping out a line across the top of a little knoll just south of a small pond, my assistant disturbed a crane. This kept flying about and croak-
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