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15 June 81
25 miles north of Tucson
6216
529 Harpshynchus [illegible] 3/16x2.7 F
I yellow, Bill black, Legs dull
fluish or greenish, May prove to be H. bendirii but I can see no
indications of spots. Magguit,
Has raised a brood.
6217
530 Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus 8.2x11. 8 yrs
6218
531 Ditto
8x10.5 4 yrs
I reddish brown, Bill black, fluit
below, Legs fluish brown.
This seems birds.
Drove to Canon del Oro, only
to find that we had been sent
on a wild goose chase for the
only "road" in the canon is a
rough pack trail; and the
water here is very poor and
scarce, and no horse feed.
Neither are birds plenty, as we
shall turn back.