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Nov., 1910 THE YELLOW PINES OF MESA I)EL AGUA DE LA YEGUA 183 crest, his dark coat set off with turquoise blue. The first sight of (?,anocitta! How it brings back the richness of mountain life ! Aphelocoma--the fiat-headed jay-- you are glad to see after an absence, but it is with a mild nut pine and juniper gladness; while at the first sight of the dark, crested figure of Uyanocitta in the yellow pines you seem to have reacht a new altitude--to have reacht the mountains. To be sure there are bights beyond, but this is a way station at which to take deep drafts from the full cup Nature is holding out to you--take deep breaths of the sweet piney air, quaff the cooling waters of the mountain streams, and look up at the beautiful yellow pines with their glistening spun glass needles as a foretaste of the firs and mountain tops beyond. You are in the_mountains--the low'country is left behind. Fig. 50. TI-IE YELLOW' PINES CourtesY' of Forest Service But what was that ? Could it be ? Yes! the glass revealed the pink glow on his breast and as he vaulted into the sky the form of the broad oval wings settled it--it was that handsome and most interesting bird, the Lewis woodpeeker! Work- ing and singing loudly among the tips of the pine branches were some warblers that to our delight proved to be the charming little gray and yellow Grace warblers. A flash of red led us thru the pines till we came to a beautiful clear pool. Was this the Agua from which the egua had come to drink, so giving the Mesa its name ? If so, the mares had had a beautiful woodland spring. The red flash here materialized into a hepatic tanager--how I hugged myself--preening its feathers for a bath in the pool. While we sat -in sight of the water so many birds came