Field notes, v543
Page 51
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Bowman 1952 11. Journal Aug. 14. 11.5 mi. NE Chama, 10,000 ft., Rio Arriba Co., San Juan Mts., New Mexico. - Horned Lizard on the rich humus soil surrounding a gopher hole. This hill has an eastern exposure. Captured at 1:00 p.m. (MST) while in the sun; saw one Piloted Warbler, and brought in the breast bone & some thoracic ribs vertebrae of a "grouse" (identified by WCR); trapped 2 small shrews (? dusty?) in Museum specials placed at the entrances to hollow logs. The following observations by Ward Russell who spent 5 hours to the SW in the meadows of the Brazos R.: shot 1 Pica (saw another, & remarked that they give only one nasal "bleat" instead of the usual 2); shot one Red Crossbill; 2 Horned Larks, 1 Savannah Sparrow, 1 Cassin Finch; saw one Woodchuck, and heard some unknown amphibian calling from a meadow (Hyla?); 1 Rock Wren, & collected one, two ft. long garter snake. Ward caught his limit of trout (15) - 12 Brook Trout, 2 Cutthroat Trout, and 1 Rainbow Trout. Addenda: Golden- mantled ground squirrel (2) collected by Stuart Londry yesterday (Aug. 13). Today, Londry reported fresh deer droppings on a steep wooded slope east of camp, and White-crowned Sparrows. The Peronopus nanoculatus which I trapped today had a white dorsal area (1/2" long) in the center of half way down the length of the tail on the dorsal surface. Stuart Londry caught 2 Peronopus