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San Felipe, S.L. Lower Calif. Mexico.
March 26, 1926.
rattlesnakes while I was walking
between bushes on the open desert. They
were & wound around one another
in a round heap and did not rattle
even when I had stepped within a
foot of them before I had saw
them. They did not rattle or unwound until Lamb had come up
and made a motion at them. Both
were small but had 7-8 rattles.
Perhaps by coincidence their rattles
went together. We also killed a
jack Rabbit also, one a male and
the other a pregnant female large
with young. We saw three Great
Blue Herons flying about a half
a mile inland and regularly on
some ironwood trees. Upon upon-
ening their nests in some ironwood
trees we found them empty.
#I shot a pair of great catchers
from a mesquite bush right next
to camp in the afternoon. Caught
2 & spermophiles at the traps in
the afternoon. Saw two large lizards
in the bushes during the noon time.