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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 [[end page]] [[start page]] [[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]] [[end page]]
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.