July 15-15 Remained at Ollantaytambo drying and packing specimens 
= te. poy a 
77 16th We,left Ollantaytambo with pack at Pite Narcisfo, — 
Jose and an Indian boy, for & pass desding to “Occobambs 
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valley. Started at 16.50, and arrived near summit where we 
camped at 4 DeMe SoH eee Se ee eet The valley was 
pro 4onh-2 Ox ‘ho. rim cy Ng Oa 
dry and without forest the whole way to the summit. in some 
places a considerapb ‘and along the stream is 
(bewek 
a struggling fringe of alders and Escallo 
The vegetation and birds are Andean aed, Sxseon an, gur camp 
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was placed well above the Zimbertline or’ “fash srowthe 
<2 ths ArUC eee A R. Nya.dg f\ 
The wieedee count ry Tare pis rollan prairie covered by a heavy 
0. priguastl LOM, 
gwowth of bunch grass. The elevation by the’ Da 08 
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12 ,400 fh. ivy peaks rise, 2, pla, om 3,000 Pt higher Det 
tio E Omi aowmet oTACLETS « 
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A considerable +64 of vill ages occur in @& the, ¥adueage. 
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Potatoes eee the only vegetable crop but i and 
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wha 
alpacacas are the chief outpets, phere At saa it it, very 
Vearrne) of 
aolds the sidesof the strean, Db 
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thestent water | eaaatat abated solid. 
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July 17th. I set out ,trap,near camp last night and caught many Euneomys 
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( a small yellow form new to, se), one Oxymcteans at dusk. and 
6a. ’ : 
Oat Ly CeAQ2O se oS es 
e- auring the daye They, exe, evidently Lerod ron hed “79, 
Ari Oreo gbipidonye ret end a short<cared . sgneggin species 
n to s s¢ om as aims hazarys1_ap— meme : 
of the side valleys viscogha hunting with an intima pees a 
hae 
camp followers. We found two colonies and -oae« 
vis opahgs .a23—bemke Vhs em eel: Atsrg SrA I efpe ) Lipbaee gee ete 
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ees. Altogether we saw wigs sie of them OL} wered —~—~__~ 
ons Besrttah co nrecalun 2A 
exceedingly tame and one could wath ln wbket —sighte within 60 on 7, 
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yards.” They epant Kant Ge their time sitting on Racal We £7 ae 
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below which were their Se are sociable “and these 
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colonies had about 15 in each of them. They on out all day , 
f\ poan Ake roeBg Crank de adie SU 
l Sieber tue. feeding on grassy wht iy eg eee playing #2 7 
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about chasing one another. One of the colonies — the 
rocks at the side of a oSral where sheep and llamas 

