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Calamospiza are abundant  in flocks of 20 to 100 over this plain to Dalhart & in the night we heard curlews over the town of Dalhart. 

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[[underlined]] Aug.16 [[/underlined]]

Left Dalhart at 2 A.M. and woke up at Tucumcari. Lots of rain and vegetation thriving.
Reached Santa Rosa about 8 & followed slowly up west slope of Pecos valley to top of open plain. Scrubby mesquite clings to south slopes all the way up this slope but was not seen beyond.

The top of this Pastura plain is almost as level as the Staked Plains but less evenly carpeted with grass. Guterrizia & other plants take none of the ground.

The Pintado and Leoncita mesas to the north are covered with juniper & nut pine but the glass shows no taller timber until yellow pines are seen over the top and north slopes of the buttes n.west of Duran.

It is there common along the top & north slope of a long ridge S.E. of the R.R. before we reach Torrence & on buttes S.E. & S.W. of Torrence & on the Sierra Gallinas to the west. Nut pine & juniper cover the warm slopes & surround the