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(age-1933.
Rankin Ranch, 3300 ft., Walker Basin,
-Nov. 20, 1932-
tules, are dips at the mouth of the east canyon; and one p[er]ognathus and ne t[ree] in the rocks up the east canyon.
This camp came very nearly being as good a camp as Thompson canyon. We greatly improved our [illegible] series here. Brown towhees, bush tits, nutatches chiefly were improved. We got several new birds to the expedition and made our list of "d[ir]nal deficiencies" less.
We have about all the data on the natural history of the basin available now, and it remains but to sum it up.
- Nov. 21-23-
These two days were spent in getting moved to Kelsoe valley. On the 22nd I shot three horned larks out of a flock of 8 drinking from a stream 2 hrs. above Bagland in Kelsoe canyon. From the [illegible] in Kelsoe valley proper, on the 22nd I shot two cactus wrens, one cactus woodpecker and one jackrabbit.
We set up camp at 3:30 P.M.