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1 Aug 81
Riverside Cala
Reached here two days ago.
Had a very hot journey across
the Gympy Desert. Lost a
horse in the middle of the
Desert and by the merest
chance another team having
a spare horse overtook me,
so I was able to hire it
to come in with.
Birds were very rare until
I neared the mountains on
the western edge of the Desert
sometimes I saw more all day.
I saw no Lophortyx gambel
for the first hundred miles
west of Gympy but they were
common from "Walters" or
for forty miles in a part
of the desert below sea level.
The first L. californicus was
seen in the San Gorgonio