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LIST OF LOCALITIES FROM WHICH SPECIMENS WERE BROUGHT HOME. 



Camp 9 : Hot Sulphur Springs, Middle FarJc, July 31 to August 5* 

 Elevation 7,600 feet. A broad, opeu valley, containing hot and cold 

 springs of various mineral waters. 



Camp 9-10 : Grand Eiver Valley, Augusts. About 7,500 feet. Grassy 

 prairies and river- terraces of coarse gravel covered with sage-brush, 

 with but little timber, except along some portions of the river-banks. 



Camp 10 : 3Iouth of Blue River, August G-8. About 7,500 feet. High 

 river- terraces. Cotton woods and alders along the river and about 

 springs in the neighboring hills. 



Camp 10-11 : Blue Eiver Valley, August 8. 7,500-8,500 feet. Same 

 general characteristics as above. 



Camp 11 : Ute PeaJc, Blue River Valley, August 8. 8,500 feet. Springy 

 ground by a cold streamlet, with abundance of small timber and lux- 

 uriant herbage. Many shells were collected on a wooded hill 2,000 

 feet higher than the camp. 



Camp 17: Head of San Luis Valley, August 14. 7,000 feet. Luxuriant 

 grass and herbage ; large pines and spruces. Water in plenty. 



Camp 17-18: San Luis Valley, A.\xg\\^t 15. 7,600-7,200 feet. Distance 

 thirty miles, mostly Artemesia plains, very dry and dusty. The weather, 

 which had been rainy, now began to be clearer, with hot noondays and 

 cool nights. 



Camp 18 : Springs, Saguache, August 16. About 7,200 feet. Edge of 

 dry plains. The springs come copiously from under a volcanic bluff, 

 and flow into a marsh, which drains into Saguache Creek. 



Camp 19 : Saguache Greek, August 16. Five miles beyond, on the banks 

 of the above stream, which is a tributary of the Rio Grande, and waters 

 a fertile region. Thousands of cattle are herded hereabouts. 



Camp 20 : Twenty miles tcest of Saguache, August 17. 9,000 feet. Vol- 

 canic caiion. 



Camp 21 : Los Finos Lndian Agency, August 19-24. 9,000 feet. A fer- 

 tile plain watered by two creeks, and surrounded by hills, affording 

 plenty of rain. The camp was placed among a grove of various trees 

 by a little rocky stream. We remained a week at this point ; but my 

 time was largely occupied in studying the traits of the Ute Indians, 

 whose agency is here. 



Camp 22 : South of Los Finos, August 24. 8,100 feet. A deep ravine, 

 which had been recently burned over. Rainy. 



Camp 23 : Timher-line ; divide hetweenthe Gunnison and Rio Grande, Au- 

 gust 25. 9,200 feet. Timber mostly small; no pines. Found manj^ 

 mollusks in the deep wet grass early in the morning. 



Camp 24 : White-earth River, August 26. 8,300 feet. " A tributary of the 

 Rio Grande, emptying in Antelope Park. The banks were here cov- 

 ered with a riotous growth of brush and weeds. 



Camp 25 : Jennison's Ranch, August 27-28. 9,300 feet. On the Rio 

 Grande, between Antelope and Baker's Parks. Fertile alluvial bot- 

 toms, with plenty of timber on the hills. Clear, with frosty nights. 



Camp 26 : Howardsville, Balcefs Farlc, August 29-September 23. 9,300 

 feet. A deep valley among immense trachyte mountains. Abundance 

 of timber (spruce and the like and aspen), bushes and plants. Frosty 

 nights, and snow toward the last of our stay. 



Cunningham Gulch is a deep caiion near by, on the high, perpendicu- 

 lar side of which, along trails leading to silver-mines, I found active 

 mollusks and insects at an altitude of fully 11 ,000 feet. 



