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Dec. 5 Caught a Perognathus in each of my two new traps & nothing in the other 13 cyclone traps. 
Caught a Dipodops a Dipodomys deserti (?).
Made up skins & wrote some.
A pleasant day.

" [[ditto for: Dec.]] 6 Caught 3 Dipodomys deserti & some Dipodops & an Onychomys & a Spermophilus spilosoma.
Made up skins & packed up & am ready to start for El Paso tonight.
A warm, pleasant day, some cloudy.

" [[ditto for: Dec.]] 7 Reached El Paso, Tex., at 6 A.M.
Got breakfast & then went down to the river to see how deep the water was. Found the bed of the river dry & grown up to willows & weeds. That settles the boat trip.
Got settled at a hotel, bought a trunk & some other things that I was in need of, made some traps & wrote letters, so did not get much time to hunt.
A warm day but windy & dusty. 
The country is as dead & dry as it could well be.

Transcription Notes:
Edited write to wrote. -@siobhanleachman