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July  . Wind blew hard all day & I couldn't find small birds.
Hunted most all day & didn't get anything of account.
Most choked for a drink but daren't drink water, eat lots of Bullberries & black currants, both are getting ripe.

Aug. 1, Had a heavy rain in the night. Got a good drink of rainwater; the first drink of water that I have taken for 5 days.

Went to traps but they were all packed full of sand by the rain & only got a Thomomys, set them over again. Killed a Sage hen & had it cooked for dinner. It was very good. Killed a lot of other birds, a Lepus sylvaticus, & a L. campestris.
Hunted all of the day except while preparing the few specimens that were worth saving. Can't find a Gopher or ones hole even. The holes of D. agilis are common.