Field notes, v1349
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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