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Gilmore
1906.
Vallecitos 7500 ft. San Pedro Martin Mts
Lower California, Mexico.
June 21.
30 traps and 8 steel settings caught
Nothing.
12 traps (day trapping) caught.
14 Junco oreganus townsendi
1 & Eutamias merriami obscurus
455. Odocoileus hemionus californicus F 1800-180-450-
220. Killed while feeding next to trail on
top of ridge near Canyon Diablo.
After persistent hunting and tracking
I finally killed a deer. I followed its tracks
for a long ways in faint expectation of
seeing it feeding a little off the trail
but unexpectedly came upon it over at the
top of a ridge feeding contently at the
edge of the trail. The only drawback to
the hunt was that the kill was made
about 2 miles from camp & it about
3-4 hrs of hard work to get the body
to camp. Saw one Buteo Butes virginicus
as it flew from a pine tree in a
shallow canyon.