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[[underlined]] Mammals [[/underlined]]

Odocoileus scaphiotus - One live & one dead seen in long canyon & a head & skin at Colbys ranch. Tracks common in Long Canyon and Alder Creek canyon and around Colbys. Three killed at Kolbys this year.

Ovis - Colby says he has seen tracks on Strawberry Peak that he believes are sheep. It is an ideal peak for them.

Sciurus nigripes. Common on Pine Flat.

Citellus beecheyi. In places all along. Very troublesome & have to be poisoned at Colbys. one seen dead is slightly intermediate.

Eutamias merriami, first heard at 2000 feet in Arroyo Seco Canyon, then common all along.

Neotomoa fuscipes - , Stick houses all along Arroyo Seco.

Thomomys pallescens, abn. at Colbys in Coldwater Canyon at 3500 feet. Do much damage in alfalfa & orchard. Many caught. One fine old male secured.

Perodepus agiles?,  , Tracks common in chaparral up to 5500 feet.

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[[underlined]] To Buckhorn Canyon [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Sept. 28. [[/underlined]] Slept cold and got up early, but waited to write up notes & did not get off till 8:45. Struck east over several ridges, each getting higher until we crossed one at 7000 feet & down into Buckhorn Canyon & camped at 6500 put on the N.E. side of Mt. Waterman. Camped at noon & event to top of Waterman in afternoon & got back in time to set all the traps.
Have been all the way in pure Transition zone. Even to the top of Waterman at 8000 there is scarcely a trace Canadian. No [[underlined]] Pinus murryama [[/underlined]] and probably no [[underlined]] flexilis [[/underlined]]. [[underlined]] Pinus lambertiana [[/underlined]] is very much like flexilis when dwarfed & not always distinguishable. 
Pinus ponderosa, jeffreyi and lambertiana and Abies concolor go to the top. Libocedrus reaches to 300 feet below. From [[Chellao?]] to Buckhorn is about 12 miles over fairly good trail and all the way through beautiful forest of pines, cedar & fir. It has never been cut and not badly burned. There is no chaparral a dense underbrush.

Transcription Notes:
Unsure of Arroyo [[Seco?]] Canyon and [[Chellao?]]-@siobhanleachman