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[[underlined]]Oct. 4[[/underlined]] Remained at camp making specimens of 2 days accumulation & setting traps & writing up notes. Saw 8 coyotes in a drove while out to [[strikethrough]] traps[[/strikethrough]] Perodipus traps near camp in morning. 

[[underlined]]Oct. 5[[/underlined]]. Caught Perodipus & Perognathus, took up traps & started up Largo Canyon. About 5 miles above we turned west up a side gulch over a low divide ^[[to the west]] and up another open valley to the south. Followed some 6 or 8 miles up this to near its head and camped in a mountain valley encircled by lava rims at the head of the stream at 8050 feet. The mountains rise about 1000 feet higher on the [[strikethrough]] north[[/strikethrough]] east and not quite so high on the west. Their north slopes and gulches are Canadian zone, covered with Aspens, Abies concolor, Pseudotsuga & Pinus flexilis. The valley in which we are camped & greater part of the mts. is Transition Yellow pine & gambles oak, while Upper Sonoran nut pines & junipers come up on some of the hot slopes nearly to the divide