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Canit&s 
(Zacatecas) 
Shay did not kaop good tisie tat each one was away on his otm 
hook so that at the time X thought the thundering noise they made re- 
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settled that of the breakers on a rooky shore. 
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I was up os on after daylight and as wrsrtfboty sees ted to be still 
sleeping I went out for a look around, Saw plenty of kangaroo rat 
burrows and identified a nwSjer of birds. Cam In, hunted up the Fonda 
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where X had ©at® breakfast once before (on the trip north in September) 
got some breakfast and went to a meson and got a roost and earns back to 
the station but the agent still slumbered and his part of the station 
was all looked up, indludirg the ®bodego ,! , where jay baggage was. 
X got tired of waiting and banged on the door until the agent appear- 
ed in his nightshirt and let the oargaders X had engaged take my baggage. 
I spent the reminder of the day setting traps for Sipodaays, gophers, 
Sigraodons, etc. 
Beoanber 84 - Sot speoiaens of Seosys. 2 Sitonsrs. Binodaajrs (small 
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Bn*), Per odious in trap® set yesterday and shot a hawk this morning. 
Caught the Perodlpus in the low ground northeast of the station among 
the grass. One of the Sit gays it* white-bellied and has a tail similar 
to the gray species found farther north but Instead of being gray is 
buffer* She other Sitaye is probably the ocesxam long-tailed species of 
Jimuloo. 
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Yesterday, while setting traps, I saw a very small gopher com® out 
of a hole run about 14 inches partly down into a little pocket he had 
raade or perhaps another hole he was filling up. Hien he got down into 
the pocket, he immediately came out without turning around and ran back- 
ward down the hole he first casts from* He did appear to be store than 
3 inches in length and appeared to be able to more a® easily end quid: ly 
backward as he did forward. Coyotes are quite plentiful here, I saw 
one While out today and coyotes and dogs together kept the air fall of 
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