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Bellevue, Blaine Co. Idaho Dec. 28, 1935
the same scolding call. I located the animal perched in the slender upper branches of a clump of Cottonwoods. I identified the animal as a Pine Squirrel by the dark gray upper parts, white eye ring, white underparts and patches on either side of the nose. The animal was exceedingly adept at traveling from branch to branch, and clump to clump, but allowed me to approach within ten feet for observation. This is a new mammal for my list.
Visited Gene Glahn on the return trip. He will visit his traps tomorrow, and invited me to accompany him on the rounds next Tuesday.
December 29, 1935
Accompanied Mr. Wright on a tour of inspection of Warm Springs Game Preserve this morning. The snow was from a foot to eighteen inches deep in the canyon necessitating chains on the car. The canyon seemed almost devoid of bird life at this time. During one of our stops I heard several Chukars calling and the call of an unknown bird which Mr. Wright called a Clarke's Crow or "Camp Robber"