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Aug. 15 Feel better today & set some traps. Caught a Neotoma & found a new kind of Bat dead by water trough Shot some birds & made 6 bird skins & 3 of mammals. Packed a box of skins - mammals. A cool day. 55 [[degree symbol]] at sunrise & 73 [[degree symbol]] at 2 P.M. The last bit of snow dissapered in P.M. from this side of the mountain. No rain here but showers around. " [[Ditto for: Aug. 16]] Caught 2 skunks & 2 Neotomas & 2 Chipmunks. Shot a few birds & added a H. ruficapillus 9. to our list of birds. Mr. Knowlton came & promptly begun work on the plants. It rained hard & hailed & blew for a short time in P.M. A cold, damp evening. 56 [[degree symbol]] at sunrise. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[blank page]]
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Think "Mr. Knowlton" may be Frank Hall Knowlton. see https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Hall-Knowlton -@siobhanleachman