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D. Strong
1925
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Goldfinches, prob. green back, one flock seen in lower
~canon.
W. Flycatcher, common.
Observations on Mt. Sheep.
June 3, 1925. Walked down the canyon and got sketches
and photos of pictographs at mouth. Gathered up Hope's
ram's head and the others went up the canyon. Melling
and I rested a while, they with a canteen of water,
climbed up the huge rock pile range where he and the
Schencks saw the big ram silhouetted against the sky
last evening. Had a ticklish climb, around hair-poised
slide rock, up cliffs, and thru cactus, reached the
point and spent about 3/4 of an hour watching the higher
peaks with field glasses. Here we found the bed of the
ram seen yesterday , a sheltered niche at the highest
point of this minor peak -- crushed dry brush showed
where he had slept. The mescal is all cropped off, the
barrel cactus broken down and eaten -- tracks and sign
were abundant. We started up the next ridge and half
way up I saw a sheeps head silhouetted against the sky-
line of the ridge -- Melling put the glasses on it, and
a large rock near by proved to be composed of sheep,
three rams and as many ewes all bunched together on a
space no more than four feet square! They were about
300 yds above us, but so well did they blend with the