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58  Jico
Tatusia novemcincta.  Said to be common.  I saw tracks of the animal at Jico.
Mt. Lion. Said to be common in oak forest.

Birds
Dendrortyx macrourus [[should be macroura]].  Abundant in the oak forest.  While hunting one day with Mateo Ramirez the owner of the Rancho ojo de agua in the oak forest we ran across a female with several young.  The young birds scampered off in the undergrowth but the [[strikethrough]] young [[/strikethrough]] old bird instead of following began to circle around Ramirez and I at the same time uttering a clicking noise.  I was anxious
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to make a specimen of her and as she kept too close to shoot with an ordinary charge I opened my gun & after putting in my auxiliry shot her with that.  Then the you [[young?]] ones finding their mother did not follow began to come back at the same time uttering a queer little peeping noise.  Although We kept very quiet they would not come in sight so that I could use my auxiliary and Ramirez & I finally chased them and after about 1/2 chasing Ramirez finally fished one out from under a log.  They were only a few days old, dark buff in
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