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Indian Gardens
June 1, 1933.
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are kept in the troughs day & night so that they may eat it whenever they want. They do very little browsing of native forage. During the morning I saw 4 of the bucks browse for a few minutes up on the slope. The bucks sparred with each other all morning, drove the does out of the shade, and were continually restles with the heat, flies, confinement and unnatural concentration of too many bucks. The show is poor.
Rock squirrels (Scopemophilus g. grammus) were constantly at the feed troughs. 15 were eating at one time.
One Ringman ground squirrel (Ammospermophilus leucurus [illegible]) was seen on Tonto Platform.
Coming up the trail to Bright Angel I heard Canyon Screes frequently.
At Indian Garden a long tailed chat squawked conspicuously. Humming birds (perhaps broad tailed) were numerous.
Range, as a whole, down in the canyon or the Tonto, is very poor. I consider the antelope a failure.
No bobcat [illegible] seen.
Sign of one coyote seen on Tonto.
Bike was barren from wild life point of view.