80. February 1952 Journal 5 Aug 17 [1 1/2 mi] NE Chama, 10000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico in Colorado. The country over here was more open than where I was yesterday. I followed the ridge along the creek. Not only spruce & fir but several small aspen groves were along my route of march. Chipmunks were numerous and tame. I could have easily collected several with a .22 aux at about 15 feet. The chipmunks were mostly in amongst the spruce, with holes in under top. There are a great many fallen and rotting logs in this woods. Today I caught 1 chipmunk in a muzzle special after run-up it was an old one, I would not have believed that it would hold him, but it killed him dead. I seldom see these chipmunks in the trees, and never over 4 feet off the ground. If they are amoenus, than they are quite different in this than the amoenus of Sage Hen Creek, which I frequently have seen high in lodge-pole pines. I noticed 2 of them chasing each other in a little spruce glade. They were quite close (about 25 feet) from to me and did not seem to notice me at all. They did not as a rule chatter at me until I fired the shot-gun. The principal diet of these chipmunks would seem to be spruce cones, although I have not found anything in their pouches yet.