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the south rim is a simple slope parallel with the stream bed. N rim thus:

((drawing in field book))

Just above camp the bluff on the N side is 90', but in most places it is about 70 or less from the top of the talus to the top of the cliff. The S. wall of the canyon has a general slope of 40° from base to top, mostly talus, but with broken rocky walls in one or two places. Up stream the tendency to form a cliff on the S. side corresponding to that on the N side is more marked.

There is a wren wren here which is very plain colored, grayish, with no spots below, slight brownish tinge on back, tail feathers and primaries obscurely banded with darker color. Also one which I believe to be the house wren Troglodytes aedon, with more reddish.

In evening an Indian boy brought me a chipmunk which he had killed with a rock, Wanted a quarter for it, but when I told him they were too common to buy he gave it to me.

Sprinkled a little toward evening and again at dusk. Creek very low today.