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[[underlined]] to Big Spring [[/underlined]]

Lepus texianus, common.  Badger holes seen.  2 Lynxes at ranch towns.  Perodipus holes are common in Colorado valley out 6 miles from town.
Same sort of country along R.R. west of Colorado to Big Spring.  On highest ground the scrub oak was common
dark when we reached Big Spring.

[[underlined]] May 21 [[/underlined]] - Tramped out over the mesa & set traps.  Bray went to top of buttes a mile west of town where he found scrub oak.  The buttes are 250 feet above town, flat topped & capped with horizontal [[strikethrough]] lay [[/strikethrough]] strata of limestone.  Are a remnant of the next step of the Staked Plains.  The mesas back of town are 50 to 100 feet above town and form one step in the track down.  From town east the valley opens out onto the red bed plain of the Colorado R. valley, with its red, sandy soil & mesquite & chapperal bushes scattered over.