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A carpet of yellow, blue, pink, orange Timber on stream [[underlined]] Wharton [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Colorado R. [[/underlined]] Bottoms, timber, 3 mi. Prairie again [[underlined]] Mackay [[/underlined]] Prairie, no mounds & no Geomys [[underlined]] Pierce [[/underlined]] Prairie - boundless, gold & green but for little dabs of civilization [[underlined]] El Campo [[/underlined]] Prairie - level, only grass 4 mi. mounds, Geomys in one spot only [[underlined]] Hillja [[/underlined]] no station [[underlined]] Louise [[/underlined]] - a change [[bracket encapsulating next 3 lines]] stunted trees by river Live oaks dry soil, sandy loam [[/bracket]] [[underlined]] Tonado [[/underlined]] - prairie - sandy mounds & Geomys in one field only. [[underlined]] Navadad R. [[/underlined]] narrow timber strip [[end page]] [[start page]] prairie a few mounds & Geomys hills in narrow strip. [[underlined]] Edna [[/underlined]] Quiscalus macroura creek. live oak woods sandy. Geomys abn. prairie river & scrub oak prairie [[underlined]] Inez [[/underlined]] Aransas Cr. Prairie Geomys & mounds in places Wesatch prairie [[underlined]] Victoria [[/underlined]] Quiscalus macroura Prosopis juliflora, com Cherokee rose " [[Ditto for: com]] Lepus merriami 2 Tyrannus tyrannus all level prairie, 2 mounds & Geomys on both [[underlined]] Placedo [[/underlined]] Pinnated grouse 6 Milvolus forficatus Icterus spurius Ardea candidissima [[Jacea?]] 1 Bartramia, abn Zenaidura " [[Ditto for: abn]]
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Checked species, kept Vernon's spelling, anything I'm unsure of is in [[?]].
[[Iaceara?]] is just a plain guess. I have absolutely no idea! Had another look at it and this it may possibly be Jacea ie http://eol.org/pages/482433/names/synonyms -@siobhanleachman
Bracket on page one from stunted trees to dry soil