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 82 THE CONDOR Vol. XIV It may be described as a sandstone mesa, with a few cattering cedars, sufficient to give it a name. There evidently used to be more, but they have been cut for fuel and fence posts. My reason for coming here was to ctch some wood rats, and ascertain the species. Merritt Cary of the Biological Survey had written me of having found signs of them there and of course I had to investigate them. The species proved to be Neotoma baileyi, as Cary had surmised. There were a num- ber of species of birds about here, but nothing special. The morning of the 28th we broke camp and drove to River Bend, where Newcomb took the train for home, and a little later, when the train from Denver arrived, I was joined by Durand and also Robert B. Rockwell, recently Associate Editor of THE CODOR, who was taking a few days holiday. Gathering up the A D A 1'1 i kr ASO [ Fig. 29. MAP SHOWING PORTION OF NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO TRAVERSED  TH iUTHOR IN TH SUMMER or 1911 impedimenta of the new arrivals we soon got under way, going westward, the road following parallel to the Kansas Pacific tracks. I may as well say right now that we three immediately started to have a good time, and I think we succeeded, though a stranger might have thought at times that a free fight was going on in the wagon, but that was merely one of our ways of enjoying ourselves. Incident- ally we did a little collecting, made a good many uotes, took some pictures, and so did not entirely neglect the.scientific side. The middle of the afternoon of the 29th we reached Deer Trail, got directions as to the road across country to Fort Morgan, and drove some ten miles farther, camping at Big Muddy or Deer Trail Creek. We saw our first young Mountain