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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Oct. 21 Set 34 traps in forenoon & killed a few birds. In P.M. made 2 Hesperomys & 9 bird skins. A pleasant day. " [[ditto for: Oct.]] 22 Went to traps in morning & caught a Skunk & an Onychomys & two Perognathus & 4 Dipodops & a Hesperomys. Made up all of the skins except the Skunk. Baited my traps again in evening. The ants carry off all the bait through the day. Dr. Stejneger killed a Defila acuta & two Calcarius ornatus. " [[ditto for: Oct.]] 23 Went to traps & got 3 Dipodops & a little Perognathus & a Skunk & shot a Jack Rabbit. Dr. Stejneger killed a cotton tail & 4 Grammurus. Caught a Thomomys in evinng. " [[ditto for: Oct.]] 24 Caught 5 Dipodops & 3 Perognathus & an Onychomys. Took up my traps on the flats & in the Mesquit brush on south side of valley & set out 20 in evening on the east side of valley in a wash. Set most of them for Perognathus & mice at holes under mesquit brush.