Field notes, v647
Page 577
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W.B. Davis 1936 Bellevue, Blaine Co., Idaho, Jan 7. the high school where I gave a talk and demonstration on how to skin and prepare study skins). Talked to about 60 students and put in a few licks against the poisoning program of the B.S. Rupert, Minidoka Co., Idaho, Jan. 8. Twining, Fred Ennis and I left Bellevue this morning about eleven o'clock and travelled thru Shoshone, Eden and Hazelton, arriving here about 4 P.M. The roads were in fair condition although it had snowed about two inches last night. At the Ice Caves we saw about a dozen Black-billed Magpies and two Ravens. Just after we had crossed the Lincoln-Jerome county line we killed a Raven and then another one about two miles E of Jerome. These birds are wary and hard to kill. Both of them were shot on the wing with no. 6 shot in a 16 gage shot gun. About 10 mi. W of Paul Twining brought down an American Roughleg. The bird was in full flight paralleling the highway and Twining was standing on the running board of