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[[underlined]]Warner Valley[[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]Citellus beecheyi[[/underlined]]. Common in & around valley.

[[underlined]]Thomomys [[space]] [[/underlined]] abundant all over the valley.

[[underlined]] [[strikethrough]] Dipodomys [[/strikethrough]] Perodipus [[/underlined]], numerous in the sandy valley

[[underlined]] Lepus auduboni [[/underlined]] - Numerous in the chapparel. Several seen, one taken.

[[underlined]] Taxidea [[space]] [[/underlined]] - Badger holes were common over the valley, some fresh.

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On the Mts. to the N.W. of the valley forests of pine come down half way on the cold slopes and pines show along the crests of the mts. to the east & Northeast.  Coniferous timber comes down at least 1000 feet below the summit of the Volcan Mts. just south of the valley.  

[[underlined]]June 24[[/underlined]],

Caught a [[strikethrough]]Dipodomys [[/strikethrough]] Perodipus [[space]], a Microtus californicus, 2 Peramyscus bigger & browner than boylii & 2 gambeli.  Shot a pair of the redwing blackbirds breeding in the tule patchs around the springs.

Hitched up & started early, following up the eastern arm of the valley to the divide towards San Felipe Valley.

Was surprised to find Artemisia tridentata common in this corner of the valley, also Opuntia [[space]] (like small englemanis) & the arborescent yellow flowered Cylindropuntia (echinocarpa?), evident overlappings from the desert.

Crossed the divide at [[3450?]] & descend rapidly into the San Felipe valley.  At about 2700 feet began to strike traces of Lower Sonoran in Prosopis glandulosa & Mimosa roemeriana, Chilopsis & Opuntia b. ramosa.