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wind, a copper (Heodes cupreus) and a blue (Plebius podarce) and 

 several others not yet determined. These species are dwellers on the 

 rock slides (not very good ground for chasing them) and frequented the 

 clumps of Solidago and Aplopappus there to be found. Several speci- 

 mens of noctuids of the alpine genus Syngrapha were also taken early 

 in the afternoon. 



The usual alpine animals were seen. Hoary marmots whistled 

 at our intrusion of their solitudes, and rock rabbits squeaked and hid 

 in the rock slides. Two willow ptarmigan in mottled summer plumage 

 were very tame, and allowed good photographs to be taken. Pipits 

 were encountered .frequently and a golden crowned sparrow appeared 

 to be nesting in a clump of wind depressed firs. There is certainly lots 

 of insect food here for these birds during the brief summer. 



To anyone wishing to spend a short time collecting under alpine 

 and subalpine conditions, no better mountain is known in these parts. 

 There is an immense area of land above timber line available and by 

 no means worked out. One can travel all day and not cover the same 

 ground. There is a good horse trail from base to timber line, used 

 by the local inhabitants when hunting or when opening their irrigation 

 ditches, which convey the water from the melting snows to the parched 

 land of the valleys. Camping is pleasant, mosquitos being scarce ; and 

 its proximity to the dividing line between wet and dry belts makes it a 

 rich field botanicallv and therefore entoniologically. 



