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Updated: May 12, 2025
The article is reprinted from the "Denver Post," whose courtesy is hereby acknowledged. The common name of the subject of this sketch is the brown-capped rosy finch; in the scientific works on ornithology he is called the brown-capped leucosticte. He is certainly a bird of peculiar habits and out-of-the-way preferences.
As I remember through memories of others, backward among my own family, it is the mother I ever recall, the little, far-off mother of my grandmothers, who sobbed her life away in song, longing for her lost palm-trees and scented waters; the tall and bronzen grandmother, with beaked nose and shrewish eyes, who loved and scolded her black and laughing husband as he smoked lazily in his high oak chair; above all, my own mother, with all her soft brownness, the brown velvet of her skin, the sorrowful black-brown of her eyes, and the tiny brown-capped waves of her midnight hair as it lay new parted on her forehead.
A glance proved that our little salutarian was the brown-capped rosy finch, which I had not seen since my ascent of Pikes Peak.
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