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(Ter a Crus) 
carrying 
Agua 
02 . the slop© of the Gofre de Far oh© near lower edge of pines they tell 
vt\d% 
raining 
case back and as 
toaerroar is Sunday we will have to wait instil day after toaorrow before 
starting agai n» It is raising almost all the time and rosy every- 
tiling not dried by a fir© or the sun, when it shines, gets moldy in a 
very short tine* 
W© have not been getting ssaoh in swabers sine© wo e&rae her©* 
Host 
Of our collection already taken here 1ms been of birds. Ants swam on 
the neat put out with traps so much that animal# will not touch it. Al- 
though X have had out traps in good places and knew positively there are 
may meat animals in the neighborhood, X have only got a weasel, % 
mouse traps have been yielding two species of Spy ex, one of Blarlna. and 
, On* of the Sores: is 
Sitsgys. and one specimen of a very large 
a small kind and the other a blacktailed large one perhaps the saao as 
one specimen of Barer taken on Hount Qrieaba at an altitude of about 
9000 feet* they seemed to bo scarce there and are scarce here* fho 
Blarina are very cannon* 
2ho rain stopped about 10 o*oloo k* X hunted birds this aftornoon 
and set out g- doaen traps for gophers* fho birds were* Qa© spaoi’ien of 
Ahaotlilla rufeseons-t s on© of Sialia asureai a young Ipjddoiiaxj a large 
thrush and a female of 
duly 3 (Honday ) - Got nothing in sy gopher traps yesterday* Hunted 
birds all the forenoon* got 12, among them were* Sialia aaurea, .Mxaoohlla 
ruffe seen# 
* a solitaire such as may be heard in all pasts of the hitter 
country, find is easily identified by its fine song* and a vary dark color- 
ed snowbird. She bluebirds and snowbirds are found only a very fm feet 
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