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3. Richardson
34 General Account.
32
m 1 Junction Meadow Kern Canyon
Inyo Co., Calif. 8/00 ft.
From the types this
morning I caught Peromyscus
boylii rowlei from the
hill and a shrew (Sorex o.
canarius). Collected the
types and began breaking
camp while Mr. Dixon
photographed some flowers
on the hill. He found a
moderate sized rattlesnake
coiled under a rock in
a lowly.
left camp at 12:30 and
continued up the Kern
River past the Hot
Springs and on up
the east side to our
present camp at Junction
Meadow. The Kern Canyon,
in general, as you
come up tends to
broaden and flatten out,
the rock walls are less
impressive and the talus
at the bottom extends
farther up the cliff. The