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c. Koford
105
Journal
August 17, 1951 Aricoma, 15000', Dto. Puno, Peru.
trape line, flushed & coprimulg'd, brown with white lore on wings. Fair wind up canyon today. Saw 2 pair thr + 6 small gray gebes (black line down neck, black dorsal half head)
August 18, 1951 Temps. -2°, +11½°C. Fair wind down canyon cool in night & continuing in morning. Saw 5 gebes, 1 pair shawder (07 blue bill, red-cinnamon sides), 1 pair anos. Traps held 2 A. yelobii, 1 Nestorupa. Took up there 60 traps. Two traps set near Boulder & Anecis luck on grazed slopes new house held 2 P. sublimica. Shot one gebe on Fox Lake. Very clear day. Sheep, llamas, & alpacas remained near houses & on lower Lag Mder. Shot a Drvis & Cundoba? Fog in late afternoon.
August 19, 1951. Temps. -3°, +9°C. Rel. humid. 14% at 7a.m. - lowest yet observed here - but 85% at 4p.m. when 5/10 low clouds (came up canyon). Wind last night continuing all day. Went to Cruero for mail & supplies & returned at noon. Shot 2 toro attages. Prepared bird skeletons.
August 20, 1951. Temps. -3°, +10°C. Wind up canyon in morning. At 11a.m. departed camp and drove to Cruero .8mi. 26.mi. 41.mi. 76 mi. junction, then to Sandia junction, to Pto. junction, to Putina, to Colocolo turnoff (14.9 beyond Putina junction), & to Furica Colorado, arriving about 7:30 p.m. By noon half overcast. All overcast & occasional snowflakes near Pto but not from under storm at Putina. Saw about 3 Speotylos between Cruero & Ptos, & many Gecitta (commonat bird). Summit byard