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30 Crotalus calenatus Bradb. - Up Miss - Scales 144 & 27 1 1/2 foot long, brown along the back with a chain like row of white spots - belly white clouded of black -- 31 Crotalus vividis - Slender 2 feet long 3 rattles green with rows of brown oblong spots white under the belly [[a short ink line divides the page]] 32 Sciurus melanotus -- Ohio -- Dos brun noirâtre, Ventre [[baiâtre?]] queue comme dos, grosseur du petit gray fox -- Red belly Squirrel [[a short ink line divides the page]] 33 Chenilles abond en Kent, Ohio Virg. Pensylv. transsant les Chemins - Très Velue rousse à tête et queue [[--ives?]] obt. long 2 p - inv -- Vu gg. avec entt noires et d'autres entt vu fles plus [[pet?]] [[centered]] Autumn--d à 1818 [[end page]] [[start page]] [[centered]] Piketravels 1810 -- [[centered]] Up Mississipi 1805. G__ fr_ St Louis [[centered]] to the Source [[centered]] Fishes -- Catfish, Perch 34 Bretan Quadrup. nou. [[marked by bracket]] Prairie Mole [[/marked by bracket]] 35 [[marked by bracket]] Large black fox [[/marked by bracket]] Renard d'Argent p. 52 36 Beautiful fox red back, white tail & breast (Raccoon Porcup - Otter, Moose Elk Deer Canis [[argarus?]] Zanthrxyl. clas-herc. Prickly Ash 36 Savanna partridge p 72 head Miss nearly black a red mark over the eyes [[a black ink line divides the page]] 1806 Up Osage & Arkansas Osage Trout/& bass Striped - 12 inch Cabria Panthers Elk Deer & [[note in margin]] 37 [[/note in margin]] Prairie Squirrels or Wishtonwishs 156 Arkansas - Yellow & black rattlesnake Land Turtle, horn frog or Cammillion in the same holes - Villages brow of a hill near Water, holes spiral very deep Dark brown belly white, tail teeth ^[[shorter body]] head nails of Squirrels - Vill 2 or 3 mile Squarer holes [[10?]] feet apart base of grass mounds near, [[Sh-- ver--?]] Wishtonwish difficult to kill, will run [[strikethrough]] es [[/strikethrough]] in, meat pretty good after expos. to fruit a little rank otherwise -- Police of village
Transcription Notes:
"Wishtonwishs" is a Native American name for prairie dogs.
"entt." may be shorthand for "en tout"
