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June 19, 1935
Lv. Tioga at 8 00 AM after man had kept his word to let us out first thing.
  Saw lots of lupine in bloom on way down Pentstemon sp. [[Clenothora?]]. Drove hard all day into increasingly hot weather crossed Mohave desert and cross Big Pines ridge where I saw Fremontia for first time in full bloom.  It covered the hillsides in a blaze of yellow rose like flower.  in great apoopnx [[?]] sprays.  Those partially open were discolored by brown eiterion [[?]] of petals. Also Yucca in soldierly rows across hillsides.  Several [[underline]] Ceanothus [[/underline]] sp. a shrubby Enogerun Pentslerum [[underline]]breviflorus [[/underline]] in purple lavender spikes six feet in heighth.  [[underline]] Pentstemon centranthiflorus [[/underline]] in bright red and numerous lupine in blue. & lavender. Also a little low blue salvia in Mohave side that was very conspicuous in rounded bushes going into the colorado desert was like going into a furnace.  We drove until 10 00 PM to get to Yuma and changed time to mountain time.  Saw my first [[underline]] Texas Nighthawk. [[/underline]]
June 20, 1935
Said goodbye to Traub and started out with Taylor in a [[strikethrough]] old Ford truck Hot & dry with incoming heat all day  Saw several [[underline]] White winged Doves [[/underline]] my first.
  Saw pink flowers of ironwood trees and  also numerous other shrubs I didn't know.  Arrived in [[strikethrough]] Yuma [[/strikethrough]] Tucson 4 00 PM.  Look over area-requested [[?]] for Mt. Sheep