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[[underlined]]Eutamias merriami[[/underlined]], heard a chipmunk first at the top of the Banner grade & a couple of miles east of Julien. A miner at Banner told me there were chipmunks up in the pines.

[[underlined]]Citellus beecheyi[[/underlined]] - One seen just below Julian & others a little lower.

[[underlined]]Microtus californae [[/underlined]] - Microtis runways were seen in the meadow just below the edge of town.

[[underlined]] Thomomys [[space]] [[/underlined]] hills are common all over the mts.

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Near the top of the ridge Quercus californicus & chrysolepis begin ^[[at 4000 feet]] just before the Pinus coulteri are met. The chapparel ceases near the summit & open pine & ^[[scattered]] oak woods cover the top of the ridge. The big [[strikethrough]] one gerdla viscia [[/strikethrough]] green leaved smooth berryed Arctostaphylos begins on the west slope in scattered bunches.

Reached Julien in time for supper, tho I stopped 2 hours at Banner to feed my horses & skin 6 cottontails. Could see no other pine than [[underline]] coulteri [[/underline]].

[[underlined]]June 25[[/underlined]].

Had to stop & get 3 shoes put on my horses, then after going a mile or two one of the bars of the pole broke & I had to tie it up & return & have it welded, so did not finally get off until after 10. Came S.W. from Julien, keeping near 4000 feet for 6 or 8 miles through half open, black oak & coulter pine forests. Tongues of Upper Sonoran chapperal come up on hot slopes but most of the country above 4000 is Transition zone. It is open