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a front view of a flat horned animal muck like caribou which has been done within 2 years according to Dr. Hewett.

Saw canyon wren Catherpes mexicanus (see white throat), pinon jay Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, long crested jay Cyanocitta stelleri, Townsend solitaire Myadestes townsendi.

The cliffs in the upper canyon are short and about equally distributed on the two sides, the canyon running nearly S. Just before reaching the cave the canyon turns to E., and the high cliff in the soft tufa with cap tufa appears on the N as at the Frijoles with only a 20 ft cliff on the south entirely in the cap rock.

Back to camp at 8 a.m., Santiago and Hemyada (Indians) having started back to the Frijoles with the pack burros before we reached camp, so we kept right on. Where the trail leaves the Colorado Canyon Colorado Canyon there are massive red sandstones much resembling the finer horizons of the Fountain in northern Colorado Colorado. Here saw bluebirds Sialia, could see no reddish on back, but they were in a shadow.

The stone lion altar is a very few hundred rods from the trail, and is thus: