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[[underline]] Coffeyville, Kansas to Cedarvale. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] July 16 [[/underline]] Came in late last night and this morning started out to prospect.  Went 3 or 4 miles S.W. of town well out on open prairie.  Found signs of Arvicola & Spermophiles & Rabbits. but Geomys does not seem to be here. Found no signs of them and no one here knows them.
Saw Otocaris & Bartrams Sandpiper & Chondestes, all prairie species. 
Have to wait till 5 in the morning for a train west.
Rained hard at noon & some more in evening.

[[underline]] July 17 [[/underline]] Left Coffeyville at 6 A.M. & reached Cedarvale at 8:20 A.M. Followed creek valleys most of the way. Found the soil rich & mellow, crops big, farms thick & prosperous, small towns frequent.  Timber & brush & big weeds along stream valleys. prairie high & rolling, tall grass. Hills often rocky, some 200 or 300 feet higher than creeks. Sandstone, fossiliferous lime rock, & shale common.
Saw Nelumbium luteums in blossom near Peru, in a little pond. Saw leaves in another place. Saw several Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Strained my eyes for Geomys hills but saw none.

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Reviewed. Solved Nelumbium [[??luterum]] -@siobhanleachman