1965 AHH Journal
8 Sept. (p.2) Two fossil findings were made on return from trying to track down the vulture. Position ca. 1 1/2 mi. W and 1 mi. N La Union, Dona Ana Co., N. Mex. Finds est. at 40 ft or more below calichi surface and 6'-10' above lower bed (not visible at first find). First find consisted of a portion of a sacrum; second, several pieces of bone unidentifiable as to part. Returned home but enroute, near jct. of NM 28 and N. M. 273, Dona Ana Co., N. Mex., picked up a DOR dove (yng. Mourning Dove). Arrived home about 9:45 am. 14 Sept Anita and I drove north during the morning to La Union, then west to Kilbourne Hole, then returned home. At about 0.4 miles west of the jct. of the Kilbourne Hole road and the railroad, shot a Citellus spilosoma, from the mouth of a burrow in the built-up hummock of a mesquite. Aside from numerous mesquite bushes, also yuccas in goodly number, some Atriplex canescens. No Larrea noted an immediate vicinity, but occurs at no great distance. At Hunt's Hole, saw a Sylvilagus and a Cnemidophorus (C. exanguis type?) and Anita found the skull of a Lepus. Hunts hole itself just that--a large crater (1/2 mile +?) limited by relatively steep walls (of lava on the east & part of north; of
