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[[underlined]] May 27. Black Hills [[/underlined]]
Aneroid at camp 4350
Junco  com. 
Calamospiza melanocorys, a pair.
Poocactes  com.
Melanerpes " [[Ditto for: com]]
Calaptes, hybrid 3
Sitta acubata 3
Merula m. pro.  com.
Sialia arctica " [[Ditto for: com]]
Pica 2
Dendroica auduboni 3
Loxia com.
Falco sparverius " [[Ditto for: com]]
Vireo heard
Chelidon 2
Micropus Melanoleucus
 Loring saw one in morning.
Sturnell
Perisorius (L) 2
Buteo borealis,
Scolecophagous cyano. com.
Molothrus " [[Ditto for: com]]
Tyrannus tyrannus 2

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[[underlined]] May 27 [[/underlined]]

Pinus porderosa
Juniperus
Populus tremuloides
Negendo
Frenvinnus
Shepherdia canadensis
 only above 5000
[[Syripharorpus?]]
Prunus
Saxifraga
Amenonepatus
Arctostophihis [[?]]
Willow
Dodicathern
Phlox
Thisnopsis
Artemisia frigida
" [[Ditto for: Artemisia]] ludoviciana
Leucocrinum montanum
Amelanchier canadensis
[[strikethrough]] Betula 5200 [[/strikethrough]]
[[strikethrough]] Picea 5200 [[/strikethrough]]

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Transcription Notes:
Checked latin species names on Google, kept Vernon's original spelling, anything I'm unsure of I've left in [[?]]. However Vernon's writing isn't easy as discussed below. Calamospiza melanocorys = Lark bunting Molothrus = cowbird I know his second o sort of looks like an e but that's Vernon for you - nothing is quite what it seems. c's look like e's, r's look like s's, his m's can look like w's etc etc.