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Hatfield -1934
500+ft, Colorado R., 17 mi. SE 308
Searchlight, Clark Co., Nev.
January 13, 1934.
get a shot at it. Shot a cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus o. andersoni)
January 14, 1934
Caught in traps -
1 Dipodomys merriami
2 Perognathus penicillatus
2 Perognathus maniculatus.
A coyote had been around nearly all my traps, but strangely enough, touched none of my traps.
Saw numerous sage sparrows and two Bewick wrens in a clump of mesquite but was unable to get a shot at the latter.
At 7:30 AM saw two red-tail hawks flap-gliding from the river-bottom toward the western hills. The sun was not yet high enough to support them in full gliding flight.
Saw a sage sparrow drinking on the bank of the river. The water was running fairly swiftly there, and the only way the bird could reach the water was by way of a fallen tree which extended into the swift water. Again I noted the extraordinary tawmers of the bird when