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[[underlined]] June 21. [[/underlined]] Slept on the grass near old borax works - 
Hunted for birds all the morning. Saw 2 Geothypis occidentalis in the marsh. A Buteo b. [[strikethrough]] clo [[/strikethrough]] colourus came & sat in a Mesquit tree just over my head. 
Went down to Bennetts Wells, found a pair of Speotyto c. hypogea at a Badger hole between Borax works & Bennetts Wells - Found 2 adult & 3, or more, full grown young Harporhynch leconti. They were in the Mesquits near Bennetts Wells - probably the brood that came from those we supposed to be breeding when there before. Saw several Jack Rabbits, heard lots of Spermophiles, Saw some half grown Neotomas carrying mesquit beens & piling them under a tree.
Made up a Harporhynchus skin. Laid in the shade through the hot part of the day & tried to sleep but the heat & horseflies wouldnt let me -
Started back to Furnace Creek at 3:20 P.M. & arrived there at 9:30. Found that it had been a hot day - up to 114 [[degree symbol]] 

[[underlined]] June 22. [[/underlined]] Got up at 2 oclock, packed up & started at 4 oclock for Wild Rose Cañon, followed down the valley & crossed on the road & up across the mesa to Death Valley Cañon.
Followed up the canon & over the divide, down to the Coal kilns & camped at the spring half a mile above them. Barometer read at Furnace Creek, 4 A.M. 30.50 in. - 0 ft. Where road

Transcription Notes:
Reviewed. Speotyte c. hypogea = Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea Harporhynch leconti = Harporhynchus lecontei -@siobhanleachman