S.O. Landry 1952 30 Journal Aug 24 3mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba Co New Mexico the warblow. 2 Stellar Jay went of down the valley calling furiously. I saw a large Red Tailed Hawk with very dark wing lining soaring over the ridge. He circled higher and higher over me. 2 parsonines were attacking him at first but they dropped away as he gained altitude. Stellar Jay and Clark Nutcrackers very excitedly proceeding along the ridge to the west. The ridge referred to on this page in another or, across a valley from the one on the preceding page. The dry creek in the valley is dammed with a check-dam which forms a pool, presumably for watering stock. I shot at 1 of the Stellar jays with a .38 auto but it didn't face it. I saw a good bit of what looks like deer excrement, in the thick oak patches on the far ridge. I found a patch of some sort of garum growing up here. It is small but perfectly good Spanish dagger type of stuff. I saw what appeared to be a different Red-Tailed Hawk at the south end of the ridge; at least, its wing coverts were not so dark. I collected a Green Tailed Towhee from an oak thicket. A chipmunk was in here too. (E. minimus?) Western Blue-birds were plentiful in the grass below the check dam. A great many violet-Green Swallows were flying over head. I saw a Band-Tailed Pigeon flying high over the valley. I saw