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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] June 1 [[/underlined]] - The 8:30 train was 5 hours late and did not come till 2:30, so we tramped over valley and along dry bed of Rio Mimbres & got a full list of plants & birds & some mammal & reptile notes. The forest of Yucca radiosa is sending up great flower stalks that are like esparagus tips only 6 feet long and 2 or 3 inches through. The buds have not yet begun to spread and it will be some time before the flowers are out. The mesquite bushes have a few old blossoms that seem to have been injured by the frost, but are also full of new buds. There are almost no flowers but a few warm days would bring them out in great variety & profusion. The ground is wet below the dry surface. The Rio Mimbres is as usual a bed of dry sand, but there are many holes where coyotes have been digging down into the wet sand for water. I could not be sure whether they had got any.