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[[underlined]] Notes [[/underlined]]. June 16, A heavy shower passed by us but for the first time in 15 days we have not been rained on.

[[underlined]] June 17 [[/underlined]]. Clear & warm with only a distant shower in P.M.

[[underlined]] June 18 [[/underlined]]. Clear & hot with a passing shower in valley below us in evening

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[[underlined]] June 16 [[/underlined]]. Packed specimens & wrote letters in forenoon so as to send the team to Tucumcari for mail & supplies. In P.M. took a bag of traps and climbed to top of the high point across the creek & went back to get on the Staked Plains, but found the timber extends back 4 or 5 miles from the edge. Set 20 traps at the top & got back to camp at 6.

[[underlined]] June 17 [[/underlined]]. Took saddle horses & went to top of high point of Plains and back 6 or 8 miles over the open plain. Shot spermophilus 13lin.pallidus & birds. Set more traps. 

[[underlined]] June 18 [[/underlined]]. Went up on high point of plains to traps & brought them down. Got only Neotoma & Peromyscus. Shot Aphelocoma which we have not been able to get before. 

Aneroid 4800 at camp, 4750 at river, and 5900 of highest point of Plains. Yesterday it read 4150 at Tucumcari & 4750 at camp.

A big wolf came to 100 feet of our camp in night.