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 	 ? 2, 	 common, , 	 3.	4 birds resembling. On the way back from up creak we found ant heaps composed almost entirely of small quartz crystals, and at on place the sand at the bottom of the gully was clear quartz sand. Very hot during most of day.

, Thursday, .

Cool morning. Up at 5:30 a.m., breakfast at 6:30. I went below camp and collected. Searched for two hours and found only one colony of, collecting two or three dozen within a radius of 10 feet. Those collected yesterday were also in one place, under logs and sticks.

Bandelier says of this valley "From the southern edge of the Zino-ka-nash, or Mesa del Pajarito, we look down into the Rito as into a narrow valley several miles long and closed