. Strong 1925 Copy) LA GRULLA CREEK Black Phoebe Wren tit Ark. Kingbird Bell (?) Sparrow, on ridges above creek. G. B. Goldfinch one wwl seen by Melling, prob. "Long eared" thin, horns, dark vert. stripes on belly. Eyes whiteish. About 12" long. Cooper Hawk. Brown Towhee. Vireo Senor Manuel Remundu Miatorrel Melling rode out to ask permission to camp and after a long wait the haciendado himself came galloping down with a bull hide flapping and sailing behind him -- yel- ing loudly. Our mules took fright naturally and tried to climb a barbed wire fence. He was a splendid bearded Whitmanesque figure, seventy years old and active as a boy picking up his rope on the ground from the saddle like a young vaquero. He used the hide to haul a load of barley hay up to his main place. We made camp in his hay field and loafed around most of the afternoon. This is the man who rode with North (A. W. -- the author) in the mts. and as he rode ahead poked up the wasps nests so that the worthy writer might have real thrills to write about. His sense of humor is keen but not overly gentle in its manifestations.