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Transcription
W.B. Richardson
1936
General Account 15
We concluded that this noise was
made by a bob-cat. I saw
the track of a deer and a
coyote 400 yd west of camp
this morning.
Jan 8 This morning I started out
early for a hunt on the ridge
to south of camp. This ridge
runs almost east and west
about a 1000 ft higher than
camp. Near the top of the
ridge there is a horizontal
granite rock out crop. The
vegetation of this hill slope
consists of Quercus mexican,
Buckeye, Pison oak, and Ceanothus
cuneatus. These trees are not
closely spaced but rather
open leaving room for an
glass cover. Near the top
of the hill I saw what
was apparently a Brush rabbit.
It had been feeding about
the edge of a ceanothus
patch but made a dart for
cover as soon as it saw me.
Several Microtus mn ways were
seen in the tall dry grass near
a brushy area. The only other
mammals seen on the hunt
was 1 Intermediate lump-mound
bat which was taken from
an abandoned mine.