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June. afternoon made out my report & wrote letters.
A good long days work. Watched for bats a while in evening.

" [[ditto for: June]] 22. Packed specimens & trunk in forenoon & started for Valentine after dinner. A ride of ten miles through the sand hills was rather dry of notes. Not a gopher scene & but few birds, saw one Quail & a few Shorelarks near Valentine. The cacti, Opunta missouriensis & fragilis, are well in blossom & the great, yellow, rose like blossoms are beautiful.

" [[ditto for: June]] 23. Traveled all night & reached Buffalo Gap at 8 A.M. Watched around the stores & talked with farmers till I found a place that suited me to stop & started out in the country to a farm house three miles from town