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[[underlined]] May 28, 1932 cont. [[/underlined]]
There were one or two clumps of the barrel cactus of surpassing beauty altho the north end of Railroad Valley - a shimmering haze of waving apricot red of an showy upright Spharalcea was a close second.
[[underlined]] Birds [[/underlined]] √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Mourning Dove [[/underlined]] (C), √ [[check mark]]  [[underlined]] Brewers Blackbird [[/underlined]] C, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Yellow Warbler [[/underlined]] (1), √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Robin several [[/underlined]], √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Says Phoebe [[/underlined]] 1 left rest high in cliff, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Arkansas Kingbird [[/underlined]] several, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Linnet [[/underlined]] several, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Song Sparrow [[/underlined]] 1, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Sage Sparrow [[/underlined]] several, √ [[check mark]]  [[underlined]] W. Redtail [[/underlined]] few, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Prairie Falcon [[/underlined]] 1, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Sparrow Hawk [[/underlined]] 2, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Raven [[/underlined]] 1, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Magpie [[/underlined]] 1, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Bullocks Oriole [[/underlined]] 2, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Hummer? [[/underlined]] 2, √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] English Sparrow [[/underlined]] √ [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Pine Siskin - Canyon Wren [[/underlined]] common in Ely. Left Ely 7:00AM ret 5:30PM
May 29, 2932
Left Ely at 7:00AM. Windy & cold most of trip go to Well's Nevada via Wendover Utah. Many snow capped mountain ranges all about but we swing northwest thru Steptoe Valley for a hundred miles. The valleys have practically no flowers except Spharalcea & this one is no exception altho an occasional Sandy ridge has a few Penstemons. Whenever we approach the foot hills or isolated buttes we find flowers. 
Going down off from last lower range into Wendover found an Opuntia with blazing red flowers - also a few yellow flowered plants. Nothing else in bloom there except for a few plants of Townsendia.
Westward from Wendover we crossed a succession of ranges & they were often beautifully decorated with [[underlined]] Mertensia  Astragalus [[/underlined]] of a clear pink and a Vicia or closely related thing with beautiful pink & red flowers. 
Phlox rigida often formed almost 

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added in "[[check mark]]" because the symbols don't display sometimes in PDF -@meg_shuler