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Had been in the house only a few minutes when a rosy finch flew in the open door.  Mrs. Bird & a boy caught it and put it out the door before I could get more than a glimpse of it.  I was provoked that they were in such a hurry, but afterward Mrs. Bird said they had heard that I was collecting specimens and were afraid I would want to kill it.

It sat on the bare earth roof of the bunk house & I watched it through the glass at 20 feet as long as I wanted to.  Then went out to the barn & found 2 more, male & female, sitting on the poles of the shed roof with feathers fluffed up sunning themselves.  The boy said there were big flocks of them down at the straw stack in the pasture where the cattle were fed, & that flocks came around the barn & house.  {Next morning found 6 eating seeds out of hay in stack yard.  Another on barn at Big Piney , even later in day -23d-