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[[underlined]] Cervus merriami [[/underlined]], Hotchkiss saw a fine bull elk in the NE. corner of the Mogollons (on Lily Mtn.) in 1894 and [[overwritten]] 3 [[/overwritten]] tracks of three elk were reported by a ranch man the same year. These are the last elk Hotchkiss knows of being seen in this region.
[[underlined]] Eutamias dorsalis [[/underlined]], Common all along on rocks & canyon walls. One shot at mouth of Beaver Cr. eating ripe fruit of big [[underlined]] Opuntia [[/underlined]] like englemani. It had its cheeks full of seed and its nose was purple with the juice.

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Two were killed ( a bull & cow) by Spence Hill in the Mogollons about 1890, Hotchkiss says. Hill owned the Gila Hot Springs then
The horns ^ [[insertion]] & head [[/insertion]] were in Silver [[insertion]] City [[/insertion]] for a long time but were sent by Hill to his father at Coffeeville, Kansas. It was said to be an unusually fine head.

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[[underlined]] Beaver Lake 

Aug. 27 [[overwritten]] 8 [[/overwritten]] [[/underlined]]. Hunted ducks & water birds, mainly with field glass and got a good bird list. Found where a Porcupine lives in a rock den. & there are lots of prairie dogs, [[underlined]] C. gunnisoni. [[/underlined]] Saw antilope tracks close to camp.

[[underlined]] Aug. 28 [[/underlined]] - Broke camp and followed up Houghton Canyon west of lake about 6 miles, then out onto open mesa and a few miles over it at about 8000 feet, then up a long dry gulch and over an arm of the Elk Mts. at 9000 feet & down the west slope about 4 miles and camped in gulch at 86000 feet. Have come nearly straight west all day probably 15 miles.
The country is all Transition zone except the steep south slope of Houghton Canyon which is covered with [[checkmark]] Junipers & [[checkmark]] blue oaks. The rest is [[checkmark]] yellow pine & [[checkmark]] Gambels oak along gulches and over mountain ridges and the mesas are open, grassy plains but evidently Transition.