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being Sundays After leaving the canyon at om Bridge the 
character bie’ the country changes rgaically. say renite rocks 
cease here  ee-keer rvhe Montanya forest. Below Setgetnfll the 
way down the valley the mountain sides are bare of trees and 
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apt are erase sovered with a few eaten of trees near the river, 
OnE This may be due to constant buring but it is 89 comp ete 
that the change in rock ree no doubt accounts for it. 
The canyon, throughout Af granite< ony, Sy aE cagLanaraen 
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wien grass overeat Saw nany- Zieh” tsope veienCalpurwheme the 
“he river increases 100% in volumedue toyentmance of ‘large Streans , As 
c. Lf rauka ° dis, 
Rio Salcantaye Below Colpagh the trees are quite diff- ~ 
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erent in genera from those growing in the canyon. Most of thes 2&2, 
_, gre covered by long streamers of Spanish moss Bromeli¢dané amt 
7 b er gray at epngganse Bret: own polliage yoo niga, little bers 
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effect. rwnot a Viarge spotted lizard on a vhe road ae) hapa foe 
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pasa May’ saw a medium sized blue deron Ta the. ivere ve: ee: of 
small birds seen along the road were the same species, Ci oe at t 
Sen Miguel. We reached Santa Rosa at 5.30 pom. and camped nesgr 
the ranch housée 
We fe 
August 16th Night warm and cleay, left Sante Ross at 6 asm, reached, mouth of" 
Vilcabamba River at 10 and then travetted—ap to — Pal tiaybamba 
where we arrived at So B0pemerne oe tree along the road and 
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riverside is a tail spidery, a ‘Piptadenis. Below Santa Rosa the 
large festoons of Spanish moss were not Pere ee a short moss— 
asrth, ie ; : 
like dilihen ahhits covered the limbs of trees, teok-’4e—pisce. 
At Colpantwe saw the first black vultures anmé-trey continued to 
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A20m v0 fe" Paltaybanbs. 4 conspicious bird wes a green billfa yellow-tailed 
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Oricleg casniques ielonios of pong pendant nests of wheen were 
sean suspended from trees near the road. The aneroid gave 5,100 
fer # for Paltaybamba. The ‘finca’ consisted of sugar cane and a 
factory for making sugar and aguardiente,Sr. Oliart, the 
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Administrador, saps monkeys qore only found a long distance from 
the finca in the higher forest where tre two species occur, @ 
a small gray one and a large Vapecies \blacke}He showed me a ~axer 
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black currgotr domesticated which livesé in the sais ees ome, ‘, 
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