Field notes, v1429
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O. Landry 1952 Catalogue 12 Aug 14 11/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico Checked the traps. Absolutely nothing. One tray sprung with mouse hair on the wire. I saw a pine gross-beak in camp close behind the cook-stove. It was a P or young. I took off up the slope of the big hill to the east. marked "High Peak" on the map. The morning was overcast and damp. I saw a weaver in the base of a young spruce tree. From since W.C.R. reported Rock Weavers, I guess this one was the same. The aspens on the slope were full of chickadees as usual. I found a collection of Elevevent, which I think must be deer and not sheep since it was high on the slope in the woods in a situation which I do not think sheep would get into. The top of the peak was pretty quiet today. I saw neither chipmunks nor ground squirrels in the rocks on the east west slope today. In a little open grove about 1/2 mi the middle of the field beyond the rocks I saw june, 2 red-breasted nut-hatches, 3 ringlets and a chipmunk. I could not manoever for a shot at the nut-hatches before they were gone. I panned cross the field to a good size spruce-fir grove, putting a 1/2 load in my shot gun. Naturally, it jammed in the chamber as they always do. Today, I did not have my screw-driver-pocket knife, so I tried to get it out by forcing the ejector by breaking the gun hard. This resulted in breaking one of the lugs that holds the thing together, so now it is kinda wobbly. On top of that, the stock