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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Motts Camp [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] May 27 [[/underlined]]. Did not catch much, but hunted for the horses half of the day & in afternoon moved camp to a better location a few rods away. The two missing saddle horses came in for water toward night but Surber did not get in till after dark so I had to get supper & did not shoot any bats. [[underlined]] May 28 [[/underlined]]. Caught 2 [[underlined]] Perognathus [[/underlined]] & a lot more [[underlined]] Peromyscus rowleyi [[/underlined]] & [[underlinde]] truei [[/underlined]] & Weller got a [[underlined]] Dipodomys spectabilis [[/underlined]]. Made up skins & in P.M. went over & dug out the Dipodomys mound & found a young one in it with eyes still closed. It is quite hairless but shows the pattern of the adult in plumbeous colored skin where the dark hair grows & light pink where the white hair is to be. The little fellow is entirely helpless, but squeaks & cries & paws the air with his little fat hands. Weller has adopted it & hopes to be able to raise it on condensed milk. The mound was built around a