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sometimes. Misses May and Friarmareca say they saw a badger this side of Water Canyon Monday. Mt. sheep heads are found in the ruins and catfish bones have been found in some ruins of the region, according to Hewett. Mr. John Adams says he saw a turkey vulture on rim of canyon at camp a day or two ago. In evening I gave a talk at the library tent on the zoology of the canyon.



Rito de los Frijoles, N. M. Thursday Aug. 24 ((sic)) 1910
[[The notes for this day and the one following have been gone over at a later date with a green pencil with "X"s and check marks as if he was tabulating what he wanted to include in a document. It is obvious that he was writing down impressions of the Indian informants]]

Foggy morning, cool, east wind. Forenoon with Harrington, Miss Friarmareca and 3 Indians getting names and ideas about birds and mammals. They seem to have very definite ideas about animals, with names for all parts, as bills, feet, claws, whiskers, hair, feathers footprints etc. Hummingbird – they distinguished male and female correctly, say not found down in Rio Grande valley but confined to mountainous