C. Koford 20 Journal! March 10, 1951 Lima, Peru twenty acres. said grain production up now over previous years (more birds). Condors infrequent at the islands but still spot them on mainland. Said Las Vegas island near Pisco usually had condors. March 11, 1951. Sunday. Brief shower this morning. wrote letters. In afternoon hired a car for drive to Chosica (40km.) and re- turn. Saw the large mouthed caves on Cerro San Augustin; just outside Lima on Avenida 28 de Julio - Ortiz had taken several birds of bats there. The road went up Rimac valley to where it was about 1/2 mile wide. High steep hills on each side of valley - barren, rocky. Remnants of old walls where there were towers near base of hills. Aqueducts along sides of some hills near Chosica. Black vultures main avian species apparent - some feeding on edge of road + group of 30+ perched on one small rocky hill. Much cotton in fields (green leaves, in flower). A bamboo-like cane grew at edges of fields. Eucalyptus + pepper trees com- mon. a few grain pastures with many trees at foot of rocky slopes. Hydroelectric plant at Chosica - the spilled water (cascade down the rocks for several hundred feet, 8'wide). Several brown mocking birds seen and many swallows as well as small & large dove. Many larger green appearing houses at Chosica but also many slab shacks. Stopped at Peruvian Laundry to see Dr. C. Noble Meeks but found that he had left Chosica & now they did not know where he was. Apparently so little rain that erosion of the bare hills or flash floods not a problem. The Rimac