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in the granite bluff where took the one mentioned. Also got a [Thomomeys?] from the upper edge of Alabamas like the one from the Sierras - very [[fuloous?]] + different from the brown ones taken in the valley below the Alabamas. Also got one Hesp. Calif. day before yesterday at very upper edge of Alabamas. At this place I caught on same day a [[Geoeoeey x?]] in  a fox trap. The bird had probably been eating the fragments of meat Nothing was left but is foot + some scattered feathers as a Lynx had eaten it from the trap + Saw the track of some very small fox both there + at a large butte a mile away across Lone Pine Creek. Above the Alabamas the Nut Rats had many old nests build about lunches of sage brush or cacti as well as their nests in the rocks. 

Great masses of granite boulders strew the slopes from the Sierras down to the Alabamas flying in long scattered lines