April 14th. 
April 15th, 
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Rained duving the night again. The 24 trans set about 
fields secured only 4 specimens of rodents. One of these ap 
peared to be a new one with a very long pencillate tail, a 
species of Rhipidomys doubtless. The others were Buncomys,. 
Small flocks of the green paroquetles wers seen from camp. 
At dusk they were seen entering the vertical holes in the mud 
cliffs high above the river where they roosted, They wers 
not at this season nesting judging from the small size of 
the testicles and ovaries of|the ones we shot. The sides of 
the canyon at this voint are comoosed of red adobe earth 
interpersed with an occasional gravel denosit but without, 
any rock formations exposed, The eanyon thus has every in« 
dication of being very recent so reeent:that there has not 
yet lapsed sufficient time to erode the adobe and gravel 
dovosits and expose the rock formations which underlie then, 
The stream boulders are chiefly various colored sandstones 
and marbles. During the night a vampire attacked my mule 
on the middle of the back and next morning a telltale streak, 
of dried blood indicated the position of the wound where te 
the bat had fed on his blood. The altitude hore is 10,600 
fest and was the highest at which attacks of this sort were 
engountered by us, 
The night was rainless. When darkness hed fallen T wnet 
Gown tho poad with the head light hunting for nectural sam- 
mal@ but’s® ined none. On one of the adoba glif’s T ghined 
the eye of a nightjar whieh Slowed firs red tnt tho bird aa- 
cared, Later a @parrow hawk sharsed tho lisht and wag 
tured by Tomes in the folds of his eat. This is the fir 
& 
instance of the kind I have evar @xnericnced 
During the night of the 15th a rodent mew to the collect- 
ion Was trapped at the edge ofja corn field beneath the tan-~ 
&led shrubbery elothing a stone wall. The Snout of this par- 
ticiilar gat was @longated into a distinet tho Short proboseis 

