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Californica & a few Bluebirds, no other signs of life. The peak is stony and rather bare. Bunch grass grows over the top from 4400 feet upwards on south slope. Coville took the altitudes of characteristic plants and collected specimens. Could see over the soda flat west of the Slate Range & over Salt Wills Valley to foot of San Bernardino Mts. Could see Panamint Valley & part of Death Valley, and away to the south. Could see the Sierra Nevadas but their peaks were hidden in a snow storm.
Did not set any traps on the mountain but set a line across the mesa at foot as we came back. Got back to camp after dark.
A cool morning, 31[[degree symbol]] at 6:30 A.M.

[[underlined]] Jan. 17, [[/underlined]] Caught 3 Dipodomes, made a few skins, packed a box of dry skins, & wrote our report till late at night -
A warm morning, 36[[degree symbol]] at 7 A.M.
colder in evening.
Nelson caught a Vulpes macrotis and Dikeman shot a Coyote. 

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Reviewed. Removed extra "at", corrected Dipodowes to Dipodomes & waerotis to macrotis -@siobhanleachman