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B. Richardson
30
9 34 General Account.
9 31 Upper Fernston Meadow Kern Canyon
Fulton Co., California 6800 ft.
From the traps set
on the hill I got one
young Brush-tailed
Woodrat and a Peromyscus
toylei rowleyi. From the
traps set in the upper
meadow I caught three
Microtus mordax. The
remainder of the morning
I spent skinning. The
early part of the morning
Mr. Dixon went hunting
up the river on the
aluvial fan and returned
with a Golden Mantled
Ground Squirrel and a
Squirrel-tailed Nuttall.
The early part of
the afternoon was spent
in skinning and the late
part in fishing. I caught
11 fish, 9 small ones from
the Big River and 2
large ones (9" and 12") from the
Kern River.
The weather was