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[[underlined]] Aug. 13 [[/underlined]] 

Stomachs examined of 5 [[underlined]] Citellus elegans? [[/underlined]] were full of largely Amelanchier berries, seeds and all, some green herbage, yellow flowers of a composite, unripe seeds of grass or composites, usually a trace of insects and one had pieces of skins & some meat eaten out of another that I caught in a trap. All but one were caught near the river and one in mts, at 7500 feet.

[[underlined]] Callospermophilus [[castanusas?]] [[/underlined]] - One shot at 9000 ft stomach full of meats of some oily seed, probably Balsamorrhiza or Wyethia.

[[underlined]] Eutamias umbrinus [[/underlined]] - One shot at 9000 feet in Mts. at edge of timber. Stomach full of some oily seed meats, probably Balsamorrhiza or Wyethia.

[[underlined]] Eutamias pictus [[/underlined]]. Shot in sagebrush by river. Stomach full of seeds and of a little pulp of service berry. Seeds may have been of the same, but were all shelled & chewed fine.

[[underlined]] Sciurus richardsoni [[/underlined]]. Pine squirrel shot at 7000 feet in douglas spruces. Stomach full of spruce seeds, shelled & finely chewed to a white pulp.

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[[underlined]] Up Big Hole Mts. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 13 [[/underlined]] - Took gun and camera & aneroid and started up the mountains east of camp - The Big Hole Range. Followed up Elk Creek about a mile to ranch & then turned up gulch of the ridge to the north until I reached the crest of ridge, then up the ridge east to a peak next to the highest on this ridge, then over into head of creek to the north, called locally Little Elk and on land office map Palisades Cr., then back down it to ridge I went up & back to camp the way I started out.

Aneroid read 5600 at camp, 7000 on top of first ridge, 8000 on next ridge 9500 feet on the highest peak I reached. The next peak would be 10500 and some of the peaks of the range may reach 11000 feet. There is none with much show of timberline on the warm slope but a well defined timberline comes down 1000 feet or more on many of the north slopes.

Transcription Notes:
callospermophilus refers to a ground squirrel.