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[[strikethrough]] temperature was very cool being [[/strikethrough]] ^[[ [[strikethrough]] therm [[/strikethrough]] The thermometer registered]] around 30 [[degree symbol]] ^[[F]] each night and one clear sunny day it reached 54 [[degree symbol]], ^[[a contrast to the intense heat that we had left behind in the lowlands.]] [[strikethrough]] A great [[/strikethrough]] ^[[On]] many days the clouds [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] came down over the mountain and we could not see our way to collect. [[strikethrough]] About 6 a.m. [[/strikethrough]] each morning ravens [[strikethrough]] would [[/strikethrough]] pass ^[[ed]] over our camp flying north, ^[[and many other unusual birds and mammals were seen]] In spite of the foggy weather and other adverse weather conditions we added materially to the collection while in this region.
After [[strikethrough]] our [[/strikethrough]] futile trapping for northern flying squirrels in the balsam and spruce forests, we moved our traps down to an altitude of 5500 feet and lower in the birch woods, obtaining one ^[[specimen]] after several days of trapping.
^[[At the end of September we moved]] [[strikethrough]] We stopped [[/strikethrough]] for about a week [[overwritten]] on [[/overwritten]] to Clinch [[strikethrough]] Mt. [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Mountain]] [[strikethrough]] in the eastern part of the state [[/strikethrough]] where the forest consists of second and third growth pine and hardwoods ^[[and]] We made a fair ^[[ly]] representative collection here.
we returned to the Mississippi Lowland [[next five words circled with an arrow to the start of the sentence]] the first week in October [[/circle]] [[overwritten]] to [[/overwritten]] at ^[[Realfoot Lake follow]] [[strikethrough]] acquire representatives of [[/strikethrough]] the fall migration in the cotton growing districts ^[[and the wooded bottomlands.]] Considering the windy weather which handicaps [[strikethrough]] bird [[/strikethrough]] collecting, ^[[at the season]] we obtained good results. ^[[Following this]] we spent about a week in the tobacco growing section of Clarksville, north of Nashville near the Kentucky line, making collections alsong the Cumberland River ^[[,]] which is one of the few rivers flowing north in the United States.
On November 1 we moved to Fayettesville, south of Nashville, collecting in the farming sections of Lincoln and Giles Counties. A great part of this section is rocky, covered with scrub cedar and cacti. I have never seen rice rats and crows more abundant than in this area.
[[strikethrough]] After [[/strikethrough]] a fruitful ten days here [[strikethrough]] and the weather getting much too cool for collecting, we were compelled to leave for [[/strikethrough]] ^[[completed our work for this season, winter had come, and we returned to]] Washington.