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Transcription
December 29 1926
No 12259 was shot near corn
field near Rio grasoran at night
by jose moralis who was hunting
with carbide light
December 30 1926 [gracoran]
this mammal was caught 1& mi west of Rio
No 12260 was caught by me in
a trap that I set the day before
in a clearing of about 5 or 4 acres
that had grass growing in it but
had been pastured the stock making
trails through this field every
which way which are used quite
often by these animals after look
ing over the field I placed two no 3
traps under and in between two trees
fastening them to a drag I covered traps
with grass broken up so not to inter-
fear with trap going of then I took some
blood meal or tankage which I had with
me I sprinkled a quantity of this around
traps and over them. the next morning
thing found that this mammal had
dragged my drag a short distance from
where I had set traps. When it just
seem us it tried to get away but
the closer we got to hit the fles it
tried to escape finely it layed down
and watched us edny move we
made we then took a picture of