mt. chickadees, long crested jays, one bird of nuthatch like habits with apparently white head, nearly as large as a bluebird (Rocky Mountain Nuthatch). At Buckman Sawmill, at the foot of the mts., we saw a sparrow hawk chasing a flicker for some time, unsuccessfully. Here we turned up an old trail into a gulch leading up into the mts., and killed two pine squirrels, which are common here. At 12:30 we found a little water and had lunch of tufted ear squirrel ham, bread and butter, and coffee. Chipmunks common here also. One W. red-tailed hawk near where we lunched.
In this canyon the upper tufa is roughly and irregularly laminated, presenting a gneissoid appearance somewhat like horizontally stratified rocks at a distance, but quite evidently not stratified. Nearly clear at noon.
Collected some mollusks, including 3 specimens of Ashmunella and 2 dead Vitrina alaskana. Started on at 2 :30 and
