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Thistles were abundant in many places, and about these were 

 dozens of humming birds. A burrowing mole was abundant 

 about camp, and several were shot by watching for them and 

 shooting them when they came up to throw out the dirt, and 

 Will secured some good birds. Beetles we searched for dili- 

 gently under stones and old bark but they were not there. 

 Pieris pallida came about the spring and an occasional Grapta. 

 A few common species were found on lower ground along the 

 stream, but everywhere it was too dry and too late. Two even- 

 ings were spent in smoking our jerked venison, and then one 

 morning we took a farewell glance at Eagle Point, which had 

 been our land mark in all our ramblings near this camp, and 

 realized that we were homeward bound. On our way to Yam pa 

 we stopped at noon for an hour's collecting, where Pamphilia 

 and Argynnis were attracted to certain Compositae growing in 

 abundance in a little draw, and at Yampa, where we spent 

 another Sunday, we tried sugaring, and actually caught several 

 Catocala. On top of the Gores range where the flowers had been 

 so abundant, we camped for an afternoon and night, and collec- 

 ted and sugared again. Argynnids were abundant, and a few 

 very dark Graptas \vere taken. At sugar a few geometrids 

 were taken, but no Catocala too high we thought and too 

 cool at night. 



The bird fauna had changed remarkably since the outward 

 journey. During all the going we had seen no butcher birds, 

 but returning saw and shot a number. We imagined that they 

 were beginning to migrate. Hawks were abundant and a 

 number of large ones were killed, and among them several 

 varieties of one species, Swainson's hawk, I believe, being the 

 most common. On the Gores range we were just ahead of a 

 forest fire which some careless camper had started, and whose 

 smoke darkened the sky during all of one day. Vast quanti- 

 ties of pine timber are destroyed every year by these fires, 

 although rangers are continually riding back and forth through 

 the forest reserves, and there are heavy penalties attached to 

 leaving unextinguished camp fires. 



At the western base of the main range we camped one night, 

 and again attempted sugaring. Result one L'atocala and a few 



