Field notes, v1701
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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