Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
March
35
near where we made camp, we
found one of these waddling over
a snow bank. Do[illegible]ing it
it suffed up its quills & attempted
to get away. We tied a rope
to its hind leg & kept it for
photographing tomorrow.
June 8
Mr. Harrison "Bowells Canyon
spent part of morning taking
taking pictures of porcupine & spent
first part of afternoon skinning
We [illegible] & hiked to top of
ridge just below the summit of
the Mountain. One here was all
sage with a few grassless meadows
some peculiar crocks [illegible]
out not more than 20ft. high.
They were wingblown & thus I were
very pocketed. Set out tripine
[solar] camp in leafless aspens.
Citellus (Sp?). Found this sps.
on top of the ridge amongst sage
& on these above mentioned crocks.
Our attention was first called
to them by a whistling similar
to a junco's song, but faster &
a little sharper. They were seen
pouched aloft the sages & on the
higher parts of the [illegible]s. On these
slopes were plenty of "sign" of
Wood Rats & Marmots [have seen]. Have
collected a male squirrel & I
obtained a F. They were size of