House wren ? 2, Western robin common, Thrush sp, Long crested jay 3. 4 birds resembling black-headed grosbeak. On the way back from up creak we found ant heaps composed almost entirely of small quartz crystals, and at on place the sand at the bottom of the gully was clear quartz sand. Very hot during most of day.
Rito de los Frijoles, Thursday, Aug 4, 1910.
Cool morning. Up at 5:30 a.m., breakfast at 6:30. I went below camp and collected mollusca. Searched for two hours and found only one colony of Ashmunellas, collecting two or three dozen within a radius of 10 feet. Those collected yesterday were also in one place, under cottonwood logs and sticks.
Bandelier says of this valley "From the southern edge of the Zino-ka-nash, or Mesa del Pajarito, we look down into the Rito as into a narrow valley several miles long and closed
