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In a mile walk I counted 47 Callipepla, saw one Pipilo mesoleucus & one Oreospiza chlorura, 2 Falco mexicana, Saplimetes & bobtailed young near nest, Zenaidura, Otocaris & longspurs, Mr. Bisse tells me he finds Geococcyx here. 

On the way across to Santa Rosa ^[[82 miles,]] we follow up & down creek valleys, across mesas from one valley to another and through many rough gulches, crossing the highest divide a little east of Santa Rosa. The country is all mesas, flat topped ridges, & the valleys cut between through the horizontal layers of sandstone. But some of the valleys are extensive & some of the mesa tops are wide prairie. What surprised me most was to find considerable low mesquite scattered on south slopes & in gulches & valleys all the way across from the Canadian to the Pecos. In many places the mesquite covers a south slope: facing a juniper & nutpine covered north slope just across the gulch. Almost perfect continuity of Upper & Lower Sonoran zones could be traced across. The country is picturesque and very interesting. 

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[[underlined]] Santa Rosa [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Sept. 24 [[/underlined]] The country around Santa Rosa is even rougher than any on the way across from Logan, the sandstone ridges at the sides of the Pecos valley being cut through by numerous narrow canyons. An open valley spreads out just below Santa Rosa but the ridges on both sides are covered with juniper & nut pine. Low mesquite bushes & several other Lower Sonoran plants grow in the valley on all the warm slopes. 

Big alkaline meadows occupy the bottom of the valley and numerous creeks of alkaline water flow down from fine looking springs, several of which are of enormous size & great depth & beauty. The finest of these great holes in the earth is said to be 150 feet deep of the most transparent water. Another is called the bottomless pool, as no bottom has ever been found. 

All of the pools & springs are swarming with small fish. As a little boy explained the water is so full of alkaline they can't grow any larger. 

See note book for plants, birds & mammals.