1895 
Ranch o Qjo 
d© Agua 
and finally near our destination a few tall trees appeared which turned 
out to be oaks. The oak belt begins abruptly and onoe was very dens© 
to its lower edge. How along the lower edge it has nearly all been cut 
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Off having only an occasional tree left. Large 
only ream in. From Just below her®, however, the oaks grow tall acid thick. 
On ay arrival her©, X found that Mateo Ramirez, the owner of the place, 
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•was gone dcwm to Jico for the day. 
July 7 - Day before yesterday I hunted birds and got out a sot of 
traps. Shot 12 birds. Yesterday I had 5 
s, 2 Blaok-tailod Screx. 
and 1 OryzCMya in ay traps. Shot a large ^ay different from anything 
seen before in the country, being very dark colored. Sent the stuff I 
had as hand down to Mr. I, at dioo by a wzo about 6*30. After sending 
off the mozo and getting sou© coffee, 1 went with Mateo Ramirez to the 
upper rancho, W© saw nothing on the way up but coming down through the 
woods I shot a large squirrel of the kind having rufous on ruap, neck, 
and belly j also a grouse (ohibiscoya) and Mateo Ramirez caught on© of 
the downy young. W@ ran across the old bird at her nest with the young. 
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As w© came up within a few foot, she started off her nest, ran a few 
feet, and stopped and refused to go farther from her nest. She would 
circle around me within 50 feet and as both barrels of sy gun contained 
heavy charges, I could not shoot, without tearing her to pieces. I had 
hard work to prevent my companion from shooting at her at 50 foot dis- 
tance. As soon as I saw she would not run off, I opened sy gun, took 
out on© charge and put in say auxiliary and with that killed her without 
doing her damage. Me&mhile the young ones were calling for their 
mother, off 78 yards or so, having scampered off into the bushes at the 
first alarm. They now began to come back; finding their parent did not 
follow them. I tried to get within shot of them with my auxiliary but 
they were very shy and could creep beneath low bushes and keop quiet 
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