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May 26. Took a bag of traps & went across the creek & set some on the S. side.
Set others along up the creek on this side for Gophers. Caught a Spermophile & 3 Thomomys & killed a Tamias & a Spizella arenacea & Swallow & other birds.
Went over into the badland bank across the creek & hunted fossils. Found a few bones & some turtle shell. nothing of much account. here & there a bit but no bones bedded in the bank. It is the bank of the creek valley, is about 100 feet high, of bare clay & soft sandrock, very steep & in places perpindicular. It is horizontally stratified, the lower part seems to have been deposited in deep water as a kind of blue clay from very fine sediment. The sandstone is nearer the top & has probably been deposited near shore as the land rose. The fossils were mostly scattered so I could not tell where they belonged. Some were high up close to the sandstone.
Found a nest with 4 eggs of Sialia Arctica in a little cave of the rock. Violet-green Swallows were around the rocks & probably nest in them. From the top of the bank the land stretches off in a level, sagebrush table.
The warmest day yet since I have been here 73 [[degree symbol]] at 2 P.M.

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fixed one typo -@meg_shuler