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May 27. Found where some Spermophiles lived on a meadow between the creek channels & shot 3 before breakfast. Caught another in trap later. Caught a Thomomys & 6 Hesperomys & an Onychamys.
Killed some birds & a Rabbit. Found a Colaptes cafers nest with 7 eggs well incubated, & a Sturnella m. neglectas nest with 5 fresh eggs & a Spizella arenaceas nest with 4 fresh eggs. shot the old [[male symbol]] Spizella when he flew off of the nest & got the eggs & nest.
Skinned & put up all the things but stuffed the Rabbit. Worked till late.
Hunted fossils along the side hills across the creek. Found some queer bones, some of fish, turtles & mammals. Dug down where they were lying on top but could not find any more.
Windy & dusty & some cloudy.

" [[Ditto for: May]]] 28 Caught 4 Hesperomes & a Thomomys & killed 4 Spermophiles & some birds & a Rabbit. Made up skins.
Caught a big Neotoma.
Windy & raw.