Journal, v4151
Page 153
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Transcription
General Account up to the mouth of Rock Creek and returned to the Hot Springs for a bath. Caught a Western Skink in the tall grass near the spring. After finishing my bath Mr. Dixon came up with word that he had shot a young Coyote and had discovered the den containing three more young I returned to camp for shovel and photographic equipment and when I returned to the vicinity of the den Mr. Dixon had caught two of the Coyotes On sneaking up to the den we saw the third Coyote asleep under the partial shade of the Mangineta bough at the mouth of the den. The den was constructed under a large boulder (10 ft in diameter) at the edge of the alluvial fan. This boulder was in a Mangineta patch completely