July 26th 
July 29th 
July 28th 
12,000 £t. Saw only one deer and that when we are were re- 
turning feeding below in an old field enclosed by a bush 
fence. Shot this one in the stomach at close ranging cutting 
cut ns £ could not see the shoulders 
or head through the bush. It was a fine buck with horns in the 
velvet strangely enough. The horns had the shape of those of 
Amercian white-tailed deer with four points on each side, I 
Saw a Single condor and a jack snipe or wood-cock in one of 
the a@pane alpine ponds. ‘aw very few small birds. Well above 
the nontanya timberline 1 saw a few of the isoleted forests 
of senecive or trees “ynopys but no acaena trees seen in th 
regione 
Caught one of the large yellow rats in the Nontanya like 
Toronto species Thomosomys also a le yellow Oryzonmys and 
a dark euneomys. The deer shot yesterday was a good adult of 
the genius Odocoileus . The road we followed up the crest of 
the mountain was a wide stoncé fla: seed affair evidently on 
even road. In many places on the ancient stones wall 
and terraces used perhaps a 1,000 years ago. The whole flat 
area about camp 4 ocopogueyn is terraced by stone walls. This 
part of the Occobamba must have at one time supported a heavy 
population. The stone works is rough natural boulders like 
those in use to-day by the inhabitants for house walls and-eo 
corals for stook. 
Caught a caemolistes int the nontamys a adult al a new 
nt-bird similiar to the staty one of Gedrobamba also taken 
in a mouse trap. “hot a pair of the ercsted flycatcheing 
warblers first collected at San Miguel. Day clear and bright. 
Somas brought in theee of a Gerrhiustes like alive lizards 
which he caught in rat traps set in the fields. 
Vaught no new mounds to-day; shot 4 new birds a blue werbler 
grey flycatcher a yellow black crowned tanaser and a very 
Similiar small species with only forehead black. Saw a pair 
of torrent ducks one of which was a large boulder 10 yards from 
the stream. The men built a Thorn hedge about camp to-day to 
Keep out the cattle which come every night and noise about the 
tents for salt. Day clear and warm with several grass fires 

