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 woodpecker common, chickadees common; say several Say's spermophiles, flickers, house wren, hawk with light throat and upper breast, a darker zone below formed by dark transverse bars and barred wings, about size of Swainson's hawk. Our camp is near the head of a gulch just across the divide E from a point about 2 miles below the head of the Valle Grande. The latter is one of the most beautiful valleys I have ever seen, entirely devoid of trees in the lowlands, but trees coming down the mountain slopes on all sides in dense conifer forests and ending abruptly where the slopes become more gentle. A stream meanders through it. There are lots of cattle and 2 big flocks of sheep to be seen from the slopes. All the open park-like places in the forests on the mountains are covered with fine grass.

I have concluded that Robbins' "deer signs" are all mad by sheep. I have seen no unmistakable deer tracks.

At the divide I saw three turkey vultures. Turning N, I soon found a flock of 20 or 30 turkeys in dense spruce timber. Tried them with the little gun, but without success, so turned back