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LIDICKER 1959 8. small grn + white osh abt 1/3 way down canyon slope. Saw 1 small horn running through grass. Got back to frents at dusk; Ward & Starter had string 2 Ant nets along side of the frents. Q shot 1 F Eptesimus fuscus (1 shot). June 20 Checked traps + picked up traps in rocky edge near 5 Newton nets. Catch: Peromyscus boylii (?) - 2 Peromyscus mexicanus - 4 Neithothomp negalotis - 1 (in trap new when I had seen small horn run late before) Newton mexicana - 2 Shot 1 Turdus migratorius (F with broad peak). Saw a cotton tail among yuccas on top of ridge, but wouldn't able to get a shot at it. On canyon watched pair of Empidonax fuliginosus + pair of Brown-headed Cowbirds; 3 large ant trophies of 26 traps in Chamathus thicket in bottom of canyon (did not bait traps). Also set 3 more Newton traps along with out cropping on latter edge of canyon. Skinned catch + Eptesimus from last night. Ward & Starter found fresh lion signs in the canyon & made 4 steel sets for them. Nothing was caught in other nets. Ward shot a Trogon caligera + Starter got amazed - trogon, RM shot at, but didn't get another turkey, he got Canyon Wm + saw Wh. H.'s wife. Both Stark & Ward saw Badger signs. After dinner went back to