Field notes, v1429
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S.O. Landry 1952 Journal 51 Sept 10 16 mi NE Pojoaque, 8750 ft, Santa Fe Co, New Mexico been cut over. People have come in to cut "vigas" or beams for adobe houses, occasionally, but the forest has never been logged off. However, it has been, and is being grazed. What effect this might have on the succession I don't know. I spent the morning chasing warblers. The Townsendi Warblers seemed to be high over head in the yellow pines, while the pileolated warbler were working the gambel oak down low. One of my pileolated Warblers was a ♀, she had a whopping big ovary, which was in ♂ plumage, that is she had a well developed black cap (Landry #257). I later had a good shot at ravens as they flew croak- ing over head, but had only .22s in the gun at the time. It began to rain this afternoon but cleared off by night-fall.. I walked up another road that the ranger told us about a little way but didn't find anything. The pines become much purer up the slope away. Nothing but big, old yellow pines. I set out my trap line up where my steel trap was set in thick Juniper, Spruce, and gambel oak. Catch should be better. Sept 11 Picked up traps. 5 Peromyscus maniculatus including 1 large old grand-mother, 170mm in total length. I got together a series of 8 ages of Peromyscus and took a color shot. On the road I found a little baby Peromyscus maniculatus which