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In the afternoon I went to a pond by the graphite
mine and shot some doods, got two "fin to much".
We called the carnivores "striped skunk" it possibly
belongs in the genus "Galadite".
July 10, 1929
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Rain off and on most of day
cought nothing In the afternoon
I put out some traps. I picked up yesterday
the trap to on the path that leads to
the plains
July 11, 1929
Max 67 min 57
Clear in the morning. After noon it
clouded up and rained all of evening.
I caught two new mammals, rodents,
one belongs in the genus Elinus, & the other in Gym
Gymnomys. Elinus called "Bushy-tailed Brown
Woodrat" had two feet both in the left horn #170.
Gymnumys # 171, called "Gray Woodrat" had
Nelson 2 feets both in one man of the others but this
time in the right. The gray wood rat had
3 pairs (6 is all of mammals) 2 pairs are
abdominal and one pectoral. the abdominal ones names
were about 10 to 15 mm apart, the pectoral just
ventral to a line between the arms some-
what like this