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Oct. 17. Went the round of my traps before breakfast & only caught 2 Thomomys, set part of the traps over. A warm, windy, cloudy night, a change of bird life. An increase of Juncos & decrease of Zonotrichia intermedia. After breakfas went to town to get an auxilliary barrel fitted in my gun & got back at 11:10. In P.M. skinned 3 Thomomys & a S. grammurus & at 3 oclock went to traps & set some more among rocks. Got back at dark.

Sketched a Dipodomys in evening.

Cloudy & windy & a little rain in evening.

" [[ditto for: Oct.]] 18. Went to traps before breakfast & skinned things till 2 P.M., then went to town for my gun. Went to traps again in evening & got a Neotoma & killed a Lepus sylvaticus.

A clear cold night & pleasant day. No visible frost because no dew, but the leaves of lucern were froze in morning.