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The ground is fairly covered in places with calcedony, in large & small pieces, white & creamy & pink & very pretty. Grass is mostly eaten up - the ground rather bare. There is a lot of brush - mostly thorny; as mesquite, cats claw, & Koeberlina spinosa, & lots of cactuses. Saw no trees on the trip except a few Juniperus virginianus (?) on the hills near Mr. Lloyds & some Cottonwoods along the creek at his place. Prairie Dogs - Cynomys ludovacianus - are numerous from Marfa to the hilly country near Lloyds, also holes of Dipodomys (ordi?) Lepus texanus & sylvaticus are very numerous in the brushy valleys, sometimes 20 texanus in sight at once & several sylvaticus. Calipepla squamata was common. & a number of small birds that I had not [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] seen for sometime before.

Lloyds place is 4200, or 500 feet below Marfa. There seems to be a great difference in the weather here, Lloyd says there has been but one frosty morning this winter. The country about Lloyds place is hilly & stony & rather bare & several animals do not seem to live here on that account, such as Dipodomys & S. spilosoma.

The creek valley at Lloyds place is