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Herbert Brown took me over to the Courthouse where we found in the basement a few skins of wolves and mountain lions & hundreds of coyotes. The skins are turned in for bounty & then sold by the County treasurer. One tanned skin of a lobo was very brown, but not darker than a beautiful live Canis mexicanis in the park. A yearling female caught when a puppy 75 miles S.W. of Tucson.

Mr. E. L. Vail, [[strikethrough]]former [[/strikethrough]] treasurer at Tucson, who showed us the wolf & other skins says there are still many wolves on his ranch at the north end of the Santa Rita Mts., east of Tucson. Mr. Brown also reports them seen at Helvetia and killed in the Baboqieveri Mts.

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[[underlined]]June 6[[/underlined]] - Got a bicycle and went out to traps. got 3 Dipodomys spectabilis, 2 only half grown, and a Citellus [[tireticandis??]]. Will catch next train for Casa Grande to try for Dipodomys deserti there.

Train was over 3 hours late & we did not leave Tucson until almost dark, so missed seeing the country. Reached Casa Grande late in evening and found a comfortable place to stay at the Woods Hotel, kept by Mr. Shaw.

Transcription Notes:
"Baboqieveri Mts." should be Baboquivari Mts.- nwmath