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Aug. 12 Am alone again. everyone else gone to snake-dance. Feel weak & worked slow. Caught & put up 8 Chipmunks & 5 birds. Added 3 new warblers to our list of birds. A pleasant day & no rain here. Measured, catalogued, labled, skinned stuffed & cleaned the skull of a Tamias 4vittatus in 11 minutes; another in 11 1/2 minutes. Got 2 Thomomys. " [[ditto for: Aug.]] 13 Caught a lot of Chipmunks & a Thomomys & killed a crossbill & an Accipiter fuscus. Made 9 skins. Went down to Bucklers & hired his boy to cook & help around camp. Havnt felt like [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] crowding work very fast. A pleasant day, no rain but showers around in evening. " [[ditto for: Aug.]] 14 Have not worked much today. Added two new birds to my list & killed & put up 5 birds & 3 mammals. Found a little lake above the spring, now nearly dry. A cool day & no rain. Showers all around. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[left margin vertical pencil line]] [[blank page]]
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