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[[underline]] Canis latrans [[/underline]], a coyote was seen at about 5 P.M. hunting in an alfalfa field. It was walking cautiously about & evidently hunting mice, but I did not wait long enough to see it catch one.

[[underline]] Mephitis [[space]] [[/underline]] - While catching mice I found a dead skunk in the middle of an 80 acre field and saved the skull. Another skunk was scented by the roadside.

[[underline]] Thomomys nevadensis [[/underline]]. Gopher hills are numerous & big. The ranchmen say they could not raise any alfalfa if they did not drown out the gophers in irrigating. Still they come into the fields & are doing great damage now.

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[[underline]] Falco sparverius [[/underline]] - A fine adult male was seen on a fence but I had no gun & did not ask him what he had been eating.

[[underline]] Circus c. Hudsonicus [[/underline]].
A few marsh hawks were seen over the fields.

[[underline]] Euphagus cyanocephalus [[/underline]] - A large flock of several hundred were sitting in the cottonwood tops near the ranch just after sundown.

[[underline]] Sayornis saya [[/underline]], One seen on fence. 

[[underline]] Colaptes cafer [[/underline]], two were seen in the orchard.

[[underline]] Junco [[space]] [[/underline]] - Juncos are common in the orchard and bordering brush patch.

[[underline]] Merula m. propinquua [[/underline]] - A typical western pale robin was seen in a ditch near the house.

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one edit (propinguna = propinquua)- @meg_shuler