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[[underlined]] Up Zuni River 

Sept. 20 [[/underlined]]. Caught 2 species of Neotoma, a Reithrodontomys (not megalotus) 2 Onychomys pallescens, & Ammospermophilus [[aninananeus?]]. Failed to get a Perodipus or Perognathus as both refused to touch bait.

Stopped to make up 8 mammal skins and did not get off till 9:15.

Followed up the Zuni valley past the Windmill & Deer Spring, both abandoned ranches, and on to beyond the New Mexico line, & camped on the big open valley above the canyon. For 8 or 10 miles the river valley canyons up with high sandstone mesa on the north and a lava capped mesa on the south, both covered with Junipers & nut pines. The valley bottom is flat and the river channel deep with cut banks and most of the way dry except a small stream through the rocky part above Deer Spr. This is springy in places & the water is alkaline. The pools where we camped are also very alkaline, tho remnants of floods. The valley is Upper Sonoran all the way and also the mesa tops. At Deer Spring 4 or 5 yellow pines grow on south edge of mesa, but no others were seen even on

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reviewed -@meg_shuler resolved {[?]] - nwmath