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[[underlined]] Sep. 5 [[/underlined]] Packed up & left Whitney Meadows at 8 A.M. reached Dicks Ranch on Kern R. at 3 P.M. Camped at the ranch, took a barometer reading & set cat traps.
Read barometer 200 feet above natural Bridge on Whitney Creek & aat Dick's. Will correct up my aneroid readings between when I get mercurial readings reduced.

[[underlined]] Sept. 6 [[/underlined]] Did not get anything in my traps, Nelson caught 2 Bear, a black cub & an adult brown Bear. The cub was in a trap baited with a stinking sheep. It had in its stomach about half of the foot that was caught in the trap, one toenail & several toe-pads, the bones & hide of the foot., a dish-rag that it had probably picked up at some camp, a lot of dirt & gravel & a few seeds of Rhamnus californica. The old Brown Bear had had in her stomach a lot of wild clover. bait from the trap & most of the foot that was in the trap.
Spermophiles are numerous along the river & seem to be browner on the back than those in the valley - Tamias 4vittatus is abundant & seems to be the only species. The big tailed one has not been found here.