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[[underlined]] San Rafael [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct.28 - Nov.1. [[/underlined]] Set a few traps in the lava beds across the marsh about a mile NE. of town and caught a dusky wodrat, so continued trapping for others, but got only the ordinary fallax & albigula except one dusky young. It would take a large series to show whether there are two forms in the lava beds.

These beds are a very recent flow of sheet lava, coming out of the gap to the south and extending across the valley to the north road probably continuous with the great lava field to the south of the Zuni Mts. It is very similar to those beds as sen at Punta Malpais, black and rough and bare like fresh slag, but piled up in heaps or blown into great bubbles or little craters or sunken into potholes and caves. It is much cracked and broken and full of retreats for such animals as rats & rabbits & chipmunks & rock squirrels and dens of skunks and coyotes. There are said to be blow holes where the wind roars and blows out or in.

Transcription Notes:
'Wodrat' is woodrat, a rodent. reviewed -@meg_shuler