Bourbon 1952 Journal Aug. 16 11.5 mi. NE Chama, 10,000 ft., Rio Arriba Co., San Juan Nts., New Mexico:- Vesper Sparrows (1 shot in very poor plumage---eroded contours) Turkey Vulture (1), retrieved skull of Wildcat dropped by Game Warden. At 7:00 P.H. (M.S.T.) saw 7 Nighthawks migrating southward, just east of camp. Stuart Landry shot 1 Lincoln's Sparrow in meadow at comp and trapped 1 Peromyscus maniculatus, 1 Microtus longicaudis, and 1 Cleithromyops gapperi. Ward Russell shot 1 Russet-backed Thrush, saw a Warbling Vireo, Stellar Jay, + Crippled a House Wren. Jerry Russell shot 1 Phelotes Warbler (6 in good plumage). At 4:00 pm. Ward Russell dropped a Long-tailed Weasel in a Schuyler trap using a young Snowshoe Rabbit as bait. Animal squealed loudly in trap. Was later killed with crushing + chloroform. Jerry Russell captured the young Snowshoe Rabbit in a Schuyler trap placed at The entrance to a large hole dug in gravelly soil near the edge of the stream. Set 36 Museum specials along stream, meadow + rocky slope directly east of camp. Aug. 17. Caught 3 Peromyscus maniculatus (2 imm. + 1 ad.) and 1 unidentified mouse (?equus ?) at base of 5 ft. spruce tree located in grassy meadows 10 ft. from water. The "peromysci" were trapped in open granite rocky slope, W-facing, at base of stumps + falling loop. Heard at comp: Red-breasted Nuthatch, Lincoln Sparrow, Mt. Chickadee, Red Crossbill, Pine Siskin, West. Wood Pewee