and sawdust, Harry started to look at his mammal traps and Markman and I finished encasing the turtle in tissue paper, cheesecloth and gunny sacks, completing this at 11 a.m. Then we began prospecting for more fossils. Came in at 3:30, had a lunch and then I went to work collecting, pinning and labeling insects, while Markman and Harry went out for birds. Harry caught a hairy tailed rat in his traps. Twas fairly cool in the morning, exceedingly hot in the afternoon and just before sundown a wind too cool for comfort sprang up. Markman killed a rattlesnake. We average about one a day. Brewer’s blackbird is common here. There are hundreds of abandoned hawks nests in these cliffs and many still in use. Last night Dodds left his collecting bag at the big turtle and this morning the shoulder strap was eaten through by small rodents. They did not injure the straps of the camp pack nor the paste, which latter was in a bottle covered with gunnysacks, nor did they nibble the layers of cheese cloth pasted on the
