Field notes, v1670
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D. Strong 1925 (Copy) 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