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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