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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
It may be described as a sandstone mesa, with a few scattering cedars, sufficient to 
give it a name. There evidently used to be more, but they have been cut for fuel 
and fence posts. My reason for coming here was to catch some wood rats, and 
ascertain the species. IMerritt Cary of the Biological Survey had written me of 
having found signs of them there and of course I had to investigate them. The 
species proved to be Ncotoiiia bailcyi, as Cary had surmised. There were a num- 
ber of species of birds about here, but nothing special. 
The morning of the 28th we broke camp and drove to River Bend, where 
Newcomb took the train for home, and a little later, when the train from Denver 
arrived, J was joined by Durand and also Robert B. Rockwell, recently Associate 
Ifditor of The Condor, who was taking a few days holiday. Gathering up the 
impedimenta of the new arrivals we soon got under way, going westward, the 
roatl following parallel to the Kansas Pacific tracks. I may as well say right now 
that we three immediately started to have a good time, and I think we succeeded, 
though a stranger might have thought at times that a free fight was going on in 
the wagon, but that was merely one of our ways of enjoying ourselves. Incident- 
ally we did a little collecting, made a good many notes, took some pictures, and so 
did not entirely neglect the scientific side. 
The middle of the afternoon of the 29th we reached Deer Trail, got directions 
as to the road across country to Fort Morgan, and drove some ten miles farther, 
camping at Big Mnddy or Deer Trail Creek. We saw our first young Mountain 
