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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. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[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