a building near sawmill yesterday.
In passing sawmill we met a Mexican with a wagon load of cantaloupes and fruit. Santiago had a dime, the only money in the outfit, and the cantaloupes were 20[cents] each, so we compromised on half-ripe peaches. Collected salamanders and snails, etc., under the aspens. Only found one dead Ashmunella in an hour, numbers of Pupilla, a few Euconulus and probably Zonites. Snails not common.
We had a fine view of the nuthatch like bird which has puzzled me. It is nearly as large as an English sparrow, white below and on sides of head, giving it the appearance of a white headed bird from the front. Back probably bluish gray, tail rounded, tipped with white band as in Lark Sparrow. Noisy (Rocky Mt. Nuthatch) ((this parenthetical statement added later; color of ink is different)).
After breakfast Robbins started out with the rifle on the S side of the gulch after deer. At 8 a.m. Santiago started down stream with the shotgun after turkeys and grouse and I went up the slope on the north side with the "Game Getter". Long crested jays abundant, Rocky Mt. hairy
