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[[underlined]] July 1.[[/underlined]] Found Caseys ranch after a few hours & got my horses & started back at noon. Reached Bonanza before dark & put up for the night.

[[underlined]]July 2,[[/underlined]] Drove in to Klamath Falls in fore noon & in PM rode over to the Applegate Ranch. Sunday.

July 4, Packed up & drove to Carr's ranch on Tula lake. Stopped an hour in the Fish hawk colony.

[[underlined]]July 5 [[/underlined]] Waded in Tule Lake all of prenoon & found nests of Archnophorus, Coot, Wrens, & Yellowheaded blackbirds.

Made up skins & set Microtus traps.

[[underlined]]July 6,[[/underlined]] Caught Microtus & Peromyseus & found nests of black terns, coot & others

Waded in lake to my waist for hours. Can go out in tules 40 or 50 rods, hard bottom, gradual slope, water warm & free from alkalie. Full of weeds & tules & algae, full of little insects. Ducks, Coot, grebes, pelicans, avocets. & terns are numerous & breeding.