we needed specimens for a family group in the museum. I got two with the first shirt and then was no time for us as they disappeared like a flash. The marmots now are just beginning to lose the pretty yellow fur with which they emerge from their holes in the spring. [The tops of the brains were worn] away off as the summer advances and leaves the dirty white under-fur. The marmots range in large bands about their holes, shout and have sometimes eight or ten adventures to the main burn. These mounds are densely covered with fresh green grass which is conspicuous in the surrounding plain. The good earth which is climbing probably grows its grass. [This] caught a fine kangaroo rat (alactaga) [The jungle name is alactaha] and a barnster broke a new marmot, we got two more marmots during the day and several little ones. Unfortunately, a dog stole the three large marmot skins from under the tent roof? between the boys' bed. Thurs., [June 19] Today we had a hundred lizards across a great flat plain and did reach this river well until 8 p.m. We saw a good-sized marmot and shot three. While we were eating,