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Contributed by Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library.
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with apparently shorter
hind legs, almost white
on the hind quarters.
Flesh dark and tough
One I killed yesterday
weighed eight pounds.
A few miles before reaching
Tucson a low, stinking
shrub covered all the
ground, and continued to
Tucson. In it birds were
very scarce.
We have been coming
down hill nearly all the
way from Tombstone, and
as the altitude decreases
the heat increases, so that
here the Magnif. Ceotilus
& are in full leaf.
Of course with the change
of climate and vegetation