Field notes, v1467
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Kaye - 1933. NW part Kelsae Valley, 4200 ft., Kern Co., - Nov. 28, 1933 - threatening all day, in fact it's snowing now. So we moved down to Ray Atwoods house. This afternoon I set a new trap line for nestoma lepidus. I set 12 traps only; the weather didn't warrant a longer line. With this snow tonight I doubt if I get anything in my traps tonight - Nov. 29, 1933 - Four inches of snow on the ground this morning! The sky still overcast. I couldn't find my traps; so Ray Atwood &l Simmons (staying here) and myself took a hike to the top of the mountains. We got up to an elevation of about 7100 feet. The birds were scarce, though I shot a brown towhee bush tit and cal. jay at successfully higher elevations. The jay was taken at an elevation of about 6500 feet. We saw many rabbit tracks in the snow, some quail and some deer. Ray Atwood left us halfway up the mountain to follow the tracks of a big buck. He tracked it two miles