. Strong 1925 Copy) 169 This afternoon we rode up the eastern rim of the flat -- out of Transition into Canadian zone -- firs, pines, hemlocks, and little aspen flats. V. G. Swal- lows, Bluebirds, Juncoes, Olive Sided Flycatchers, Nut- hatches, Mt. Chickadees, Mt. Quail (1 pr.) characteris- tic. (Also Bewick Wren). Got to the rim and looked down 10,000 ft. over the Colorado Desert, the river, and the Gulf. Could even see Sonora across the Gulf, and looking back to the west could see the Pacific. An unsurpassed spectacle! White-throated Swifts were sail- ing over the abyss. I collected one. Saw a little old sheep sign; much deer sign all along the ridge. Went up and down the ridge thru the brush. Out on the flat I saw a pair of W. Purple Martins going in and out of a hole in a big snag. (Left 3 deer hides, 3 skulls, and collected antlers for Jose to take down to San Jose.) ENCANTADA: May 28, 1925. Left Vallecito for Encantada. Rode over rocky pine ridges, manzanita thickets, and willow and aspen clumps in the rare dry creek bottoms. In one such flat saw three deer, two bucks, and a doe apparent- ly. Got about five views of them, they appeared blue grey with white rumps, more marked than the buck I saw at Corona. The bucks had about two points, and bounded off up the canyon from the flat where they had been