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grows along the river, some places a mile wide. Mesquits (Prosopis [[blank space]]) grow in the washes and on low benches The prairie grass is short & scattering. much of it a little gramma.
Left Wichita Falls for Seymour at 3:20 P.M. and arrived there at 6 P.M. Traveled S.W. across mesquit covered plain ^[[insertion]] 51 mi. [[/insertion]] Prairie Dogs were abundant all the way, saw 9 Lepus sylvaticus & 1 L. texianus. Counted 8 Neotoma houses in one patch of mesquits, 9 in another & 12 in another. The nests are built up around bunches of mesquit or independantly & look like Musk Rat houses. I estimated the number of P.D. holes at 5 to 10 to the acre. Should think they would average 5 to the acre all the way including places where there were none. Never saw so many P.Ds. before, nor so evenly distributed. Could see no holes in corn fields but in new stubble fields they were common. Seemed to be more in the older fields. Saw 6 cottontails run to P.D. holes & get down in partly out of sight.
The Mesquits are scattered over nearly all of the country, look like orchard trees in places, rarely over 10 feet high.

Went out for a short hunt before dark, but

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jeni92127 reviewed 15 Sept. 2017- Insertion tip great! Corrected insertion markup in line with previous request from the Smithsonian Archives. Recognise this isn't in general instructions & some volunteers may be unaware. -@siobhanleachman