Page:Field Notes of Junius Henderson, Notebook 4.pdf/121

, , one bird of nuthatch like habits with apparently white head, nearly as large as a bluebird (Rocky Mountain ). At, at the foot of the mts., we saw a chasing a  for some time, unsuccessfully. Here we turned up an old trail into a gulch leading up into the mts., and killed two, which are common here. At 12:30 we found a little water and had lunch of tufted ear squirrel ham, bread and butter, and coffee. common here also. One near where we lunched.

In this canyon the upper tufa is roughly and irregularly laminated, presenting a gneissoid appearance somewhat like horizontally stratified rocks at a distance, but quite evidently not stratified. Nearly clear at noon.

Collected some, including 3 specimens of and 2 dead. Started on at 2 :30 and