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[[left page blank]] [[end page]] [[start page]] April 12. Caught another Geomys & 6 Spermophilus 13lineatus, & 2 Hesperomes & a big Cat. killed some more birds & set more traps. Made up skins & hunted, A cold morning & cool & windy all day. looks like storm in evening. " [[Ditto for: April]] 13 Sunday Cold & raining most of the day. " [[Ditto for: April]] 14 Caught a S. 13lineatus & 2 Onychomys. Made 5 mammal skins. Went to town after noon so as to go out to Kenedy in the morning. Met Mr. Bates & had a good chat with him. He is keen & accurate. is well posted on botany & knows something of birds & mammals. Has a lot of fossil bones, some of Saurians & others of large mammals. Cloudy & not very warm. " [[Ditto for: April]] 15 Left Valentine at 8 A.M. in buckboard stage with 4 passengers & other baggage, so my box & valise had to be left for another team to bring out. Traveled the same old sandy road, across the Niobrara R. & then up the Garden Creek Valley. Vegetation hardly started,
Transcription Notes:
Hesperomes = Hesperomys
Spermophilus 13lineatus is a little prarie squirrel now known as Ictidomys tridecemlineatus