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as Blue Winged Teal.
Both Caspian and Black Terns were
seen over the river as we were leaving.
In the afternoon I skinned two gophers
both large males from the south side of
the river caught by Davis this morning. Later
we took a much needed swim in the
creek about a half-mile east of camp.
I saw Long Tailed Chat and Willow
Goldfinch for the first time in this
district on the way.
Within a hundred yards of camp Aldrich
shot a Cottontail, and I shot a Jack rabbit.
We skinned them when we returned, and
found suspicious white spots on the skin
of the cottontail, and a large boil deep
in the muscle of the back of the Jack.
From the boil we removed a large quantity
of fluid, and several hundred white spherical
egg-like structures about a millimeter in
diameter. Davis calls them developing tapeworms.
They were preserved for examination and
identification. Needless to say rabbit was
not eaten for dinner this evening.
May 21, 1935
We spent the morning doing odd jobs and
getting ready to pull out. A Lewis Woodpecker
flew over camp adding a new bird to the
district list while we were preparing to leave.
We left at 12:20 and headed northward.
About a mile from camp we turned and drove
down a side road eastward about a half
mile. Here Davis picked up a trap line, set
for gophers the night before. Two gophers were