R.J. Raitt 1956 Journal Spruce Mountain, 8400-10,000 ft, Elko Co., Nevada June 25 On checking them before breakfast I found 2 adult and 3 young Peromyscus maniculatus and one Microtus longicaudus. I kept only the 2 adult P. maniculatus. At about 7 AM we caught a ride with the crew working on the television station. They were coming up from the east and gave us a ride up to the saddle on the ridge top. We began to hike up toward the summit ridge, and on the way Ward shot a Vesper Sparrow in a sage bush. When we reached the level where the forest begins Ward cut toward the forest and I continued up the slope toward the south. In a short lone pine tree I heard a Rock Wren singing and shot it. At that point I picked up a ride in with the construction crew going up to the summit in a jeep. I rode with them to the summit at about 11,000 feet where I saw Mountain Bluebirds and a Rock Wren. I dropped down a few hundred feet onto the timbered west slope of the mountain and contoured around to the north. The slopes here are rock (of marble mainly) and covered with an open stand of Limber and Bristle Cone Pines. Many of the pines are dead. There is little undergrowth and little reproduction by the pines. Lower down about 1500 feet in elevation I could see the belt of White Fir which looked like much thicker timber. In the pines I saw only several Violet-green Swallows, one Turkey,