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"the very limited space of a few ravines
which afford cover and instead of
being spread out over a large area as
in the forest. Moreover, they are easy
to see because of the low bushes, which
now are all leafless.
But at this there are hundreds of rock
rabbits there and really very few warpti's.
And these are not easy to get, as we
found later, even tho' our initial
experience had led us to believe otherwise.
The mesaless ridges are so high with
rock extremely steep sides that it is killing
work thrust down the ravines properly.
It means shooting up & down all day
over the roughest country. If one is fort-
utunate, as we were on the first day, in
driving the particular ravine which
contains a warpti, the chances are
that one will get a specimen. But
the probabilities are very much stringy
that after an all day's search of the
hardest kind one will have missed
the warpti altogether.
After two more days of killing
driving, when rockhuts were run-
ning about us like rabbits, we
decided to do some shooting regardles
of frightening warpti. We wanted
scores of rockhuts and certainly