Field notes, v1429

Landry, Stuart Omer
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Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
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LANDRY, S.O. 1950 - 1953 1. Local and Miscellaneous, 1950 Catalogue nos. 1-21 Journal 2. Local and Miscellaneous, 1951-1952 Catalogue nos. 22-90 Journal 3. New Mexico, July 6 - Sept. 14, 1952 Catalogue nos. 91-292 Journal 4. Local and Miscellaneous, October 19, 1952 - November 30, 1953 Catalogue nos. 293-318
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LANDRY, S.O. 1950 Local and miscellaneous Catalogue nos. 1-21 Journal
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5.O.Sandry 4 Catalog 1950 Apr 8. Pope Week, 5 mi N.E. Pope Valley, Napa Co. Calif. April 9, 1950. 1 ♂ Peromyscus truei, 177-92-23-20 May 7, 1950. 2 ♂, Peromyscus boylii 3 ♀, Peromyscus boylii , 201,-101,-22-19. Oct 6. Strawberry Canyon, Alameda Co. Calif. 4. ♀ Peromyscus truei, 201-95-23-22 32.6 gms. No embryos. Mus musculus 156 Monzonita, Marin Co. California Not collected by me. Collector unknown 5. ♂ Mus musculus, 156-79-17-13 15.9 gms. Oct 18 3 mi NNE. Vallejo, 120 ft. Solano Co. Calif 6 ♂ adult Euphausus cyanoccephalus wt. 69.0 gms. 24 ♀ Ephagus cyanoccephalus adt. 54.9 gms. Hole of Cardinaty Bridge, Oct 24 7 ♀ Immature, Euphasus cyanoccephalus Wt. 54.9 gms. 8 ♂ adult ) " " 68.3 gms. Nov 14 Strawberry Canyon, Alameda Co., California 9 ♂ Reithrodonmys megalotis, 134-69-16-13 Wt. 8.4 gms. 10 ♂ imm. Reithrodonmys megalotis 123-65-15-12 wt. 7.9 gms. 11 ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus 147-65-19-17 Wt. 16.0 gms. 12 ♂ Reithrodonmys mesalotis 134-69-18-13 wt. 10.0 gms 13 ♂ " " " 127-63-17-13 wt. 9.2gms. 14 ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus 171-80-21-17 wt. 22.8 gms imm. 15 ♂ Hylocichla guttata Wt. 22.3 gms. Dec 10 Gray Lodge (rare Aetuse, 3 mi NW Pennington, Butte Co. Calif. 16 ♂ Reithrodonmys mesalotis (?) 134-64-17-12 No weight Mus musculus 17 ♂ " " " No measurement: No weight 18 ♂ " " " 145-67-17-8 Mouling Noweight Decll University of California Campus, Berkeley, Alameda Co. Calif. 19. ♂ Junco oreganus 16.9 gms. Dec ll 3 mi NE San Rafael, Marin Co, California O.P.Pearson 20 ♂ Microtus californicus 166-45-21-15 Wt. 41.5gms
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S-O. Lanohy 1950 Catalogue Dec 10. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., Calif. (Ward Russell) 21 ♀ Tadarida mexicana 104 - 34 - 9 - 17 Wt. 12.2 sms.
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Journal Apr 8 Angwin, Pope Creek, and Environs, Nappa Co., Calif. +9 Left L.S.B. about 2:00 p.m. Met at St. Helena and proceeded to an old barn outside of Angwin, for bats. We didn't find many but did get some Corynorhinus rafinesquii and Myotis thysanodes. From here, we proceeded to a locality on Pope Creek about 3 1/2 mi. out S.E. of the town of Pope Creek. The weather was cloudy, with intermittent drizzling most of the afternoon. We set out snap traps at this place, ate supper, and, tried shining animals along the road without much success.. We then drove to an old shed, apparently, an old chicken-house, to look for bats.. We found, more, and as the west rain began coming down, we decided to sleep here. This was closer to Pope Creek South and West of our trap-lines. On the way, we noticed a large # of Dipetalomys in the road. The only one collected on the trip was one run over. Shined several deer from the car, and one small animal, either a fox or a raccoon.. We checked the traps once before returning. 1 shrew (orex trowbridgii) in mice.. In the morning found, 3 Peromyscus truei, 2 P. maniculatus, 1 Rheithrodonmys megaloitis. 13 traps in all, baited with walnuts and oatmeal. Ran my line along the creek, about 20 feet back, along a barbed wire fence, under various burlaps, cut back away from the creek out into a field. Traps under burlaps out in the field. We did some bat shooting
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S.O. Lamely 1950 Journal 2. Apr 8, +9 Angwin, Pope Creek, and Environs, Nappa Co., Calif. befre supper. Collecting, 3 Toxancla mexicana hve, shooting them, over the bridge over the creek. Birds seen included Cliff Swallows, poor-will, unidentified owl), Turkey Vultures, California Jays, Brown tourees,. Returned home, afternoon of the 9th; stopping on the way to pick up a few botanical specimens.
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S.O. Landby 1950 Journal May 6,7 4 Mi. N.E. Pope Valley, Pope Creek, Nappa (o. Calif) Left Berkeley, 2.00 P.M. Stopped at Alginum (Howell Mountains) looked through old barn for bats. 1 Myotis thysanodes. Arrived at Camp around about 6:00. Set out Trap lines. Mine ran up the side of a steep hill away from the road about 40 yards from the bridge. 15 traps. 10 "museum speciels", 4 ordinary house, more traps and 1 live trap. One of my traps at the base of the hill, on the edge of the road caught, 4 mice. 2 of them less than 30 minutes apart. The live trap got clogged with dirt and failed as a trap. Caught a total of 9 mice. The trap up the hill caught mostly Peromyscus truei but the large # of there had intermediate measurement between truei and maniculatus and may have been P. boylii. The trap line went up the hill 75 yards or so and turned along the edge of the top following what was apparently a deer trail. Bait was oatmeal. Tried for beets again in an old mine. Could not find it. (This was somewhere west of Pope Valley.) Besides, the 2 Peromyscus's mentioned above, the other mammals obtained were: Peromyscus maniculatus, Rheithrodonmys megalotis, Sanex thowbridgii (cought alive) Noctipmutes taken. Birds included 2 Cliff swallows and 1 Vaux swift, shot. Weather was warm and clear. Daytime temperatures running about 75.
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2. Landry, S.O. Local and miscellaneous, and Sagehen Creek, Calif., 1951-52 Catalog nos. 22 - 90 Journal
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0. Lendry 951 Catalogue May 3 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology - 22 ♀ Procyon lotor (No measurements) of Napa, Napa Co. Calif. Longhuust ranch, Picked up on road by A. Mossman 6 mi. S.W. Lactating Wilden Park, May 8 Allcat Canyon, Contra Costa Co., California 23 ♀ Sorex trowbridgii wt. 5.1 gms. 119-49-13-8
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S.O. Landry 1951 Catalogue Sept 15 Sagetten Creek, 3 mi. N.W. Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif. 43 Citellus ♀ 263-87-40-21 moultin 44 Citellus ♀ 264-82-41-23 moultin. very fat. Had to soak in gasoline. moultin. 45 " ♂ 261-94-40-20 Sept 16 46 Peromyscus maniculatus ♀ 168-72-21-18 47 Citellus ♂ 258-83-40-22 very fat. Had to soak in gasoline. moultin 48 " ♀ 260-87-40-20 Sept 20, '49 Oryctolagus cuniculus ? No measurements - skull for zoo dept. Berkeley, Alameda Co., California. immt. Nov. 2,'50 ♂ Didelphis virginiana 388-167-37-39 Sage Hen Creek 3 mi. N.W. Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif. Nov. 4,'51 Eutamias amoenus ? ♂ 201-80-[illegible]-33-23 skin only 52 " " ? 208-87-32-18 skin badly torn up. 53 " " ♀ 222-91-33-20 54 " " ♀ 218-85-34-17 skull smarked 55 " speciosus ♂ 200-77-29-18 Dec. 31 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology - Berkeley Alameda Co Calif. [illegible] 56 Aplodontia rufa ♀ 329-27-51-24 (see Parker for data)
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S.D. Sandy 1952 Catalogue. Feb 2 5 mi W. Inverness Marin Co, California 57 Aplodontia rufa ♂ 336-20-47-18 (E.W. Pfeiffer 22 Cal) Feb 11, 58 " " ♂ 320-22-49-18 (E.W Pfeiffer 30 Cal) Feb 11 Italian Swiss Colony Winery, Asti, Sonoma Co, California 59 Eptesicus fuscus ♀ 100-36-11-c-12 Wt. 10.9 gms. (T.M. Street) 60 " " ♀ 105-42-12-n-17 Wt. 11.1 gms. (T.M. Street) Feb 23 Berkeley, Shattuck Ave + Haste St. Alameda Co California Haste 61 Thomomys bottae ♀, 229-64-26-16 Wt 173.5 gms. (L.R. Richards) (no emb.) (moulting) (very fat) 5 mi. W. Inverness Marin Co, California March 4 62 ♀ 246-78-28-7 Wt. 165.5 gms. (E.W. Pfeiffer) Thomomys bottae March 31 63 5 mi W. Inverness, Marin Co, California 64 ♂ (E.W. Pfeiffer) Lophophortyx californicus. April 15, ♀ Sa Mora Calif. (Died in captivity) (Brought in frozen by Nelson Wells. 65 ♀ Chinomilla Zanigera 403-149-59-53 Wt: 411 gms. (Brought in frozen by April 14 66 ♂ Eutamias somomae 242-117-35-18 Wt. 50 1/2 gms. (Darl Bowers)) 5 mi NE Napa, 1000 ft, Napa Co. California May 6, 1952 5 mi W. Inverness, Marin Co, California. 67 ♂ juv. Aplodontia rufa 243-19-47-16 (E.W Pfeiffer Cal. 70) May 9, 1952 1 mi # W. Westwood, (5100') Lassen Co. Calif. 68 ♀ Citellus lateralis 250-80-38-16 (Duane Wright) May 15, ♀ 5 mi SW Arletta, 5 mi SW Grig Harbor, Pierce Co, Washington 69 sex? Allen Humminbirds Picked up, dead 70 sex? " " " " 71 sex? " " " " May 16 72 Clethrionomys gapperi ♀ 129-47-18-12 (No embryos) 73 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 160-76-20-17 Testes large 85 74 " " ♀ 172-25-19-16
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80. January 1952 Catalogue May 16 Arletta, 5 mi SW Gig Harbor, Pierce Co., Washington 75 Peromyscus maniculatus ♀ 163-82-19-16 (No embryos) 76 " " ♂ 177-94-20-18 May 21 MV2. San Benito Co. (by S.K. Karnie) 77 Mustela ericita ? No measurements skull only pick up. 78 " " ? " " " " June 7, Sage Hen Creek, 3mi NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif 79 Tamiasciurus douglasii ♂ 326-107-49-22 Testis - 23mm. June 8 80 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 142-61-19-21 Wt. 19 gms. 81 Microtus montanus ♂ 175-49-20-15 Wt. 69.6 gms. 5 embryos possibly a 6th resorbatory skel. 82 Citellus lateralis ♀ 243-84-41-22 Wt. 217 gms. Reported as skeleton. 83 Eutamias speciosus ♂ 173-77-31-17 Wt. 43gms. Testis 17mm. skull only Skin only 84 " " ♂ 183-80-30-18 Wt. 47 gms. Testis 15mm. 85 Eutamias amoenus ♀ 204-78-33-20 July 8 Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana skull only 86 Peromyscus gossypinus ♂ 134-63-17-? damaged by ants mus musculus 87 " " ? No measurements or skeleton 88 " " ♂ " " 89 " " ♂ imm. " " July 23 90 Apodontia rufa ♂ 324-16-50-23
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S.O. Landry 1951 Journal June 16, Sagehen Creek 3 mi., N.W. Hobart Mills Nevada Co. California Left Berkeley about 2:00 p.m. with Bob Field of Paleontology, my wife, his wife, and his small daughter. We arrived at Dr. Needham's experimental area, about 8:00 p.m., expecting to find Bob Bailey as previously arranged, but he had left leaving only, Ely Metz, one of Needham's students, with whom we camped. The area is about 6500 ft above sea level. mostly forested with second growth lodge-pole pine. There is some Jeffrey pine but very little sugar pine. The cleared creen are sage-brush, very low and sparse scrub plants, not at all like the high, thick chaparral of the coast region. In addition, there are some meadows near the streams, grassy and wet. One of these is just across the creek from our camp. The creek is well stocked with trout, fast flowing, cold and clear. A good deal of snow is still left on the higher peaks, on the north sides, but there is none at this level. We spent the early evening prospecting for porcupines. Walked up the road to another and larger meadow which in quite wet. There is much evidence of porcupines. Many barked trees and some of them quite freshly done. However, we heard absolutely nothing.
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January 1951 2 Journal June 16. Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi. N.W. Hobart Mills, Nevada Co. California. Overmuch are the quietest I ever heard. No owls, no frogs, no crickets, no nothing. Sly, say we have heard coyotes, but we heard more. I set out a dozen museum speckils, and 2 rat traps. June 17. Got 2 Peromyscus maniculatus in the museum speckils. Among the rocks under the pines. The area is very rocky, glacial moraine soils. Many rock piles and slides. Consequently a great many chipmunks and marmots. Bob shot 1 marmot, which he prepared as a skeleton for paleontology. I put up the 2 mice. The rat-traps have been taking chipmunks and golden-mantled ground squirrels, one & even today. They are thick here in the rocks. Bob shot another chipmunk, about a half mile down the road, out of a pine tree. We thought it might be a squirrel. Went to Floriston, about 10 mi. West of Truckee which is known locally as "Porcupine Corner". We arrived about dusk and went out scouting for porcupines. The signs were all around. Hardly a single tree its untouched, and some of them are completely girdled. Although they must be thick in here we again found none. We found one dead on the road, very ripe, and with the skull crushed. We returned to
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P.O. Jewelry 1251 Journal 3 June 17 Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi N.W. Hobart Mills. Nevada to California. Sage Hen Creek. I set out 3 museum specimens and the 2 rat bacon traps. We set 5 steel traps along the road, baited with salted June 18 - 1 more chipmunk in the rat trap, somewhat smaller than the other 2. Caught in exactly the same spot, a rock slide above the camp. I gutted all the chipmunks, ground squirrels and brought 'em back with me. I wonder that there are no jikas in here, on these rock slides. The environment seems ideal, but there are none. No porcupines in the traps; the baits were absolutely untouched. Irritatingly enough, we found freshly barked trees in camp! I guess we sleep too soundly. We packed our stuff and left camp about 2:00 p.m. We had a little difficulty finding all our traps but finally did so. We came home by way of Lake Tahoe, a very worthwhile side trip. I picked up 4 Rana boylii from the creek in camp with and dropped them into a jar of alcohol Dillwyn Swarttel had supplied me. They seem very sluggish and easy to capture. Perhaps it is the cold weather. Got back to Berkeley about 10:00 p.m., and dumped all the specimens and traps at M.V.Z. Bob wants the chipmunk that he shot as a skeleton for the Paleo collection. M.V.Z. will keep the skin (#31)
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O. Sanely 1951 Journal 4 Sept 14, Lag Hen Creek, 3 mi. N.W Hobart Mills Nevada Co Calit Left Berkeley at 6:00 A.M. with Pen Bleedel, his wife, sister and small baby arriving here about noon. The physical plant of Dr. Needham's experimental area is much improved, tents, sheds, stores and even refrigerators. The water level in the creek is not much different from what it was in June as far as I could see. I was gratified to find out that the boys here had gotten me two porcupines. I smell one alive, and one large one, soaked in formalin. No mammoths were to be seen, apparently they were already started skeletonation. The weather during the day was warm and sunny, but now that night is falling, it is cooling very rapidly. The boys here tell me that it gets down to about 30° F, some nights. I brought along 30 museum specks. I set 25 of them along the creek, running through wet grassy swales, willows and just plain garvel. I am hoping to get zapus. The other 5 traps I set under the lodgepole pine, for porcupines.. This is where I caught 'em last time. I also brought 4 rat traps which I had set under the pines on the rocks for chipmunks and ground squirrels. I caught 1 golden mantled ground squirrel, but the skull was smashed. It was very fat, I am soaking it in garoline before putting it up. A new hazard
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Sept 14, Lagallen Creek 3 mi N.W. Hobart mills Nevada Co California. exists for skinning in the swarms of yellow jackets which now abound. They collect all over the carcass as fast as you set the skin off and are extremely nerve-wacking to deal with. I unfortunately lost my field glasses and so have been unable to check on the birds but juncos are plentiful and I heard 1 Hellan Jay. Also saw 1 flicker and several small warbler-vireo sized birds. Migration seems to be under way. I also found no robins in the meadows at all. They were quite common in June. Bloodel and I went out to shoot chipmunks of which there are many in evidence. We missed all we shot at however. Tried one chippy in a lodge-pole pine about 40 feet high and lost him in the foliage. We then forgot about him and started zeroing in the rifle. To my great surprise instead of being frightened by the report, the chipmunk came out on a limb and began chattering at us. I took another shot at it and it dropped several feet into another clump of branches. If I hit it at all it was not dead because we could here it chattering in the foliage although we could not see it. I hope we can bring back a cross-section of the mammal in this place as it would be desirable. We saw or deer a doe as we drove in along the road. Foot prints and excrement are plentiful.
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Sept 16, Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi. NW. Hobart Mills Nevada Co., Calif. - Set 30 mouse traps in the meadow above camp. Total catch, 1 Peromyscus. Caught another in the set-traps in the pines behind the camp, away from the brook. We spent all of both days taking Citellus lateralis out of the rat-traps. Our total catch for 2 days was 8 specimens. 6 trapped and 2 shot with a .22 rifle. 2 chipmunks, 1 shrew and 1 Microtus complete the roster. The boys tell me that there is a beaver dam along Sage Hen Creek, about 3/4 of a mile below (Earth) Camp. Another one exists above camp near Independence Lake. The weather has been sunny, with a little cloudiness late Sunday afternoon.. The countryside is very dry. The natives say they need rains.. Saturday night we heard a coyote howling.. There may have been several of them, but all I could be sure of was one: Apparently it was not too far away. I was surprised to find that although the common ground squirrel at Sage Hen in the golden-mantle, (C.) lateralis, at few miles W. of Truckee at an apparently higher altitude the common squirrel is C. leucurus. They are all along highway 40 in the road cuts on the quite barren According to Hall, (Mammals of Nevada) C. leucurus is found at lower altitudes than C. lateralis.
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D. Landry 1954 Journal 7 Nov 3 Sage Hen Creek, 3mi N.W. Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif. Left Berkeley at 7:30 AM with wife and P. Bloodet. Arrived at Truckee at 1:00 o'clock, Meeting Pearsoni and party. The weather was clear and bright, but there was still considerable snow on the ground from the 6" fall of 2 weeks ago. We drove to Needham's experimental area, loading into Pearsoni bus for the trip over the 1.1 miles of muddy road into the area. Snow was patchy but apt to be 4-5" deep, especially in wooded and protected places. I saw one golden-mantled ground-squirrel out, eating something on a large boulder along Route 89 near Sagehen Creek. We erected a tent over one of the platforms for shelter and spread mattresses on the floor. The Cogswells arrived about night-fall. I put out 30 museum-specimen in approximately the same spot as last time out into the meadow and up along the edge of the woods. I set 4 set traps along the road in daylight for chipmunks and ground squirrels. The temperature drop at sunset is really startling. I left to set the trap at about 4:30 and returned about 5:45 when darknes had fallen. When
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Sandy 1951 Journal. 8 Nov 3. Sage Hen Creek, 3mi NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co, Calif. I left the snow was soft and when I returned it was crusted and hard. I heard a great horned owl hooting as I was putting out the traps. Logswell, Kent Carrive and I went back to the vicinity after dinner to call him, but he had moved on. At 8 o'clock check of the trap revealed one Peromyscus maniculatus in a rat trap. Nov 4. Picked up the museum specimens, finding 2 P. maniculatus immature in the traps. Found 1 tray I had left out since last September. It was still set. One other trap was sprung, with mouse hair on the wire.. Temperature last night hit about 21° F. We heard coyotes howling not too far away. Went up the hill side away from the creek with Tom Agretawani and Eli Pietzsch, two of Needham boys who were still on the place with their .22 rifle. We were after "chickarees" and chipmunks. We took shots at 2 squirrels but didn't get either. They seem to like to hang around large dead snags surrounded by conifer, particularly Red + White Fir. There is little Red fir close t
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S O. Jewellby 1951 Journal 9 Nov 4. Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada (o Calif. the creek, but a couple of hundred yards up the slope it becomes quite prominent. Chipmunks and chickarees seem to be subsisting on its cover, with remains of which can be found all around. We shot 3 chipmunks, but they were rather badly torn up. They all seemed to be amoenus as nearly as I could judge. A chipmunk caught in a nut-trap near camp seemed to be speciosus. This would fit in with its characterization as the "Lodge Pole" Chipmunk since lodge pole pine is the commonest type tree near the creek. On the other hand, it is found more among the boulders, near the rocky broken slopes near camp. Amoenus seem to depend less on boulders and more on trees as a place of protection. This makes 'em easier to shoot. One golden mattle- ground-squirrel was also taken by Bloedel in a nut-trap among the rocks near camp. The only honest-to-god hibernating animals were seen to be the Marmots which have vanished, Chiggy, and ground squirrels seem to stay out whenever the weather in warm. The chipmunks skins were not especially fat.. We collected frogs (Rana boyllii) from the creek and near by pools
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80. Landry 1951 Journal 10 Nov 4 Sage Hen Creek, 3mi. N.W. Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif. and these animals were apparently as active as ever. although the creek water was not much above freezing temperature. I put one hog in a glass jar out of water overnight and it froze to death: Returned to camp after chipmunk hunting, packed up and left, after skinning out another chipmunk, also an omena shot by Cogswell with a shot-gun. Pearson tent his efforts at capturing water-shrews with no success. They should be here but no one has taken any yet. Left Inkee at 4:30 and drove home about 9:20.
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S.O. Landry 1952 Journal. May 15, Arletta, 5 m. S.W. Gig Harbor, Pierce Co., Washington. Arrived here last night with my wife, her brother, mother, and father. This is the property of Raymond Bacon, on Puget Sound. Wooded, coniferous and deciduous trees. A fir (?? species?) seems to be the dominant tree. The weather was a bit rainy this morning but it has cleared up and now the top of Mount Rainier is plainly visible across the sound. I have set 10 muslin specials out in the woods all day, hoping to get some chipmunks, but without any luck. Mr. & Mrs. Bacon tell me that there used to be chipmunks on the place but that they are no longer very common. This would indicate that perhaps, a different successional stage, is now present in the woods. There are cleared fields and orchards here, about three deep in grain, so that the prognosis for Micratus is good. I will move and re-set the traps tonight. I picked up 3 dead Allen's Hummingbirds in between the panes of a window in the "Apple House", an old shed where apples are stored. What on earth would make these Hummers attempt to get in there, I can't imagine, but I will keep them all as skeletons, since they are a bit far gone for skins. They seem reasonably
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S.D. Lowery 1952 Journal May 15 Arletta, 5 mi. S.W. Grig Harbor, Pierce Co., Washington fresh, and I do not doubt that they were caught in here this Spring. The prevailing deciduous plant in the woods is Madrone (Arctostaphylos). The firs are about 50 feet tall but so this is undoubtedly cut over land. Mr. Bacon tells me that "Pine Squirrels" are common here and that they climb into trees and cut down the "pine" cores in the winter. This must be Tamiasciurus hudsonicus. Since this Tamiasciurus does not occur here, nor since Mr. Bacon also describes them as "ground squirrels", this must refer to Citellus fescygi. This has been a beautiful spring day, temperature is about the 60's with a very slight breeze blowing. The nights are a little cooler. The haze has gradually burned off during the day. A spotted towhee and a pair of long sparrows have been playing around the back porch here while I have been writing. This morning I was awakened by a long sparrow who got in my window... One sparrow seems a bit more reddish, plusher, larger and it has a somewhat more prominent eye - streak than the birds of Berkeley. The songs of long sparrows are so variable that hypothetical difference of songs between races are not worth reporting.
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8.O. Janelry 1952 Journal 3 May 16 Arletta, 5 mi SW Gig Harbor, Pierce co., Washington - Picked up the traps this morning. 4 Peromyscus maniculatus austerus and 1 Clethrionomys californicus occidentalis. This last was caught in an old, weak trap and was still alive. I put up all of these and then moved the traps to a grassy spot in an attempt to get Microtus. None of the ? animals showed any signs of embryos, even if I have not noted the fact on the label. Of course, this is not enough of a sample to tell with, but this seems to me rather remarkable. It suggests that Peromyscus may breed later in the year up here. May 17 collected the traps. No mice. Mr. Bacon tells me that coons are plentiful, and occasionally bother his chickens. Bear have been seen in the woods not far from here. This would indicate fairly undisturbed conditions. The woods around here are full of ferrous which seem to run back shallowly under the surface of the ground. Occasionally they get out into open fields but in the woods they are commonest. This is almost certainly Apodontica.
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S. Landry 1952 Journal June 7 Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co. Calif. Arrived at Truckee at noon. Met by Bob Hoffman who is up here permanently now (for the summer). We arrived here a little after 2:00 and immediately began walking around looking for chipmunks. I shot a chickaree off a rock beside the road. He was a ?' in full breeding condition. He had the most enormous testicles I ever saw on a rodent. Bob went out while I was skinning the Tamiasciurus and shot a Eutamias specimen. It was also in full breeding condition. I am using 16 gauge size 7'2 shot and I fear that even this is really too much for chipmunks. This individual's skull was all but completely smashed. The braviness of chipmunks seems to vary tremendously. When we were here last June, Fields and I could easily get within 30 yards of a chipmunk. Those we shot, we got at very close ranges. Similarly, in November, we did not have any trouble getting within shooting range, in fact, we got some we missed the first time, who came out to cuss at us. Today however, chipmunks ran and hid when we approached within 75-100 yds, and a shot at this range is extremely tough, even with 16 gauge. We are going to try Museum Specials for them tomorrow. Rat traps, which Hoffman has been using, get felled.
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S. Lenday 1952 Journal June 7 Sage Hen Creek, 3 mi NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co. Calif. up with Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel. If a Citellus gets in a museum special, it certainly won't kill him and he will probably pull out of it. The marmots are out in force. We saw 3-4 of them diving for their holes. I will collect one for a skeleton tomorrow. We set out 28 museum specials and 2 little house-mouse type traps, the latter baited with squirrel carcass for shrews. The museum specials are set in the wet grassy meadow, mostly in Microtus runs which are far more numerous then last year. The meadow has been heavily flooded by the melting of this years second snows. We noticed 1 young buck deer in the fields as we were setting traps at dusk, or rather it observed us. it was quite tame and advanced across the open field to about 100 yds from us. Through Bob's glasses I could see its ribs sticking out. The winter has been very tough on deer! Also at this time we saw a Mourned Owl flying over the field. Also many coon tracks in the mud around camp. Some Otter (skunk?) and, of course, marmots. Birds today - Chipping sparrow, Western Tanager ♂, Perwees, Ruby-Crowned Klylet, Robin, Tuncos, Williamson Sap-sucker ♂.. June 8 1 Peromyscus maniculatus & 2 microtus montanus traps.
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3. Landry, S.O. New Mexico, July 6 - Sept. 14, 1952 Catalog nos. 91-292 Journal
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S.O. Lendry 1952 Catalogue Aug 11 1 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000', Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico 91 Parus atricapillus ♂ wt. 12.4 gms. 92 Dendroica auduboni ♂ wt. 15.2 gms. 93 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 147-61-19-16- wt. 17.5 gms. Testis 10mm Exch. Coll. 94 Eutamias — ♀ 2/6-88-30-17 wt. 60.0 gms. 95 Nuthatch ♀? No wt. Testis 20mm 96 Tamiasciurus fremonti ♂ 3/1-107-48-27 Wt. 232 gms.
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20. Sunday 1952 Catalogue Aug 11 11\frac{1}{2} mi NE Chama \rightarrow 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico 97 Eutamias \quad \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} \quad 217-97-32-16 \text{ wt. } 57.3 \text{gms.} 98 Parus gambelli atricapillus \female \quad \text{wt. } 11.2 \text{gms.} Aug 12 99 Perisoreus canadensis \text{ wt. } 82.2 \text{gms.} \male Adult. 100 \\ "\\ \\ " \quad \text{wt. } 74.2 \text{gms.} \female Adult 101 Sphyrapicus thyroider \quad No weight \female 102 Sphyrapicus thyroideus (crossed out) 102 Eutamias \quad \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} 198-89-30-16 \text{ wt. } 45.3 \text{gms.} 103 Dendroica auduboni \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} \text{ wt. } 13.1 \text{gms Adult} 104 Regulus calendula \female \quad No wt. Aug 13 105 Citellus lateralis \female 291-99-42-20 \text{ wt. } 190 \text{gms.} \text{No emb.} 106 \\ "\\ " \quad \female 270-95-39-18 \text{ wt. } 180 \text{gms.} 107 Clethrionomys gapperi \female 125-35-18-14 \text{ wt} 19.9 \text{gms.} 108 Peromyscus maniculatus \female 157-62-19-18 \text{ wt. } 23.6 \text{gms.} Aug 14 109 Thomomys \quad \female 208-56-26-7 \text{ wt. } 100.4 \text{gms.} EXCH, \text{COLL.} 110 Sialia \quad \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} Ad \text{ wt } 31.5 \text{gms.} 111 Junco \quad \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} Ad \text{ No wt.} Aug 15, 112 Sorex palustris \female 157-81-21-6 Wt. 13.2gms. 113 Clethrionomys gapperi \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} 121-36-17-13 \text{ Wt. } 16.8 \text{gms, Testis } 9 \text{mm.} 114 Peromyscus maniculatus \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} 155-65-20-19 \text{ wt. } 19.5 \text{gms. Testis } 12 \text{mm} 115 Tamiasciurus fremonti \female 276-45-47-18 \text{ wt. } 14 \text{gms.} 116 Loxia curvirostra \female \quad No weight EXCH, \text{COLL.} 117 Empidonax difficilis \text{ wt. } 11.5 \text{gms.} Aug 16 118 Microtus longicaudus \female 130-42-19-14 \text{ wt. } 28.4 \text{gms.} 119 Clethrionomys gapper \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} 111-23-18-13 \text{ wt. } 17.0 \text{gms.} 120 Peromyscus maniculatus \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} 154-64-19-18 \text{ wt. } 21.3 \text{gms} 121 \\ "\\ " \quad \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} 144-65-21-18 \text{ wt. } 17.1 \text{gms.} 122 \\ "\\ " \quad \overset{imm.}{\raisebox{-3pt}{\scalebox{0.8}{$\male$}}} 153-62-19-23 \text{ Wt.}
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8.0. Janely 1952 Catalogue Aug 16 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft. Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico 123 Sphyrapicus thyroideus ♂ wt. 66.6 gms. Aug 17/124 Eutamias ♀ 183-60-31-17 wt. 48.6 gms. 125 wt. 2.8 gms. Aug 20 3mi. S.W. Tres Piedras, 9000 feet, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico 126 Spizella passerina ♂ imm. wt. 11.1 gms. 127 " " ♀? imm. wt. 12.1 gms. 128 Vireo gilvus ♂ imm. wt. 13.3 gms 129 Trogodytes aedon ♂ imm. wt. 12.9 gms. 130 Junco caniceps ♂ imm. wt. 21.4 gms. Aug 21/31 Cyanocitta stelleri ♂ ad. wt. 128.8 gms. Dryobates 132 Sturnella magna ♂ wt. 68.4 gms. 133 Peromyscus (trui?) ♂ 170-69-20-21 wt. 20.4 gms Jessie 9 mm 134 n maniculatus ♂ 146-54-19-18 wt. 16.8 gms. 135 " " ♂ 159-67-19-16 wt. 18.4 gms. 136 Eutamias minimus ♀ 184-76-30-11 wt. 40.4 gms. 137 " " ♀ 201-93-31-16 wt. 41.6 gms EXCH. COLL. Aug 22 138 Sitta pygmea ♀ ad. wt. 10.3 gms. 139 Vireo gilvus ♂ imm wt. 11.7 gms. (badly shot up) 140 Spinus pinus ♀ imm. wt. 11.4 gms. 141 Sitta pygmaea ♂ ad. wt. 9.5 gms. 142 Junco caniceps ♂ imm. Wt 18.9 gms. 143 citellus lateralis ♀ 272-88-39-18 wt. 25.5 gms. 144 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 154-63-21-17 wt. 19.2. gms. Aug 23 145 Cyanocitta stelleri ♀ ad. wt. 122. gms. 146 Hedymeles melanoccephalus ♀ imm. No wt. 147 Dendroica graciae ♀ imm. wt. 7.5 gms. EXCH. COLL. 148 " townsendi ♂ ad wt. 9.8 gms. (fat)
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S.O. Landry 1952 Catalogue Aug 23 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico 149 Dendroica townsendi ♀ ad. wt. 9.5 gms. 150 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ ad wt. 8.0 gms. Aug 24 151 Peromyscus' ♀ 159-69-20-19 wt. 21.9 gms. Green Tailed Towhee 152 Chlorura chlorura♀? imm. wt. 29.4gms. EXCH. COLL. 153 Wilsonia pusilla ♂² ad . wt. unknown. 154 (Co)lptes calor. ♀ wt. 135 gms. 155 ? (young bird) ♂?imm. wt. 25.1gms. EXCH, COLL. 156 Empidonax - ? ad. No wt. Aug 25 157 microtus _____ ♂ 133-44-19-12 wt. 19.5 gms, maniculatus 158 Peromyscus flavci?) ♂ 158-66-2K-19 wt. 18.4 gms. 159 " truei ♀ 152-62-22-20 wt. 24.8gms. 160 " maniculatus ♀ 161-65-20-18 wt. 24.5 gms 161 " " ♂ 150-64-19-20 wt, 17,8 gms. 162 Junco caniceps♂ad. wt. 21.0 gms. 163 " " ♀ ad. wt. 20.9 gms. Temez Creek, 6mi NW Blanca, 8500 ft. Sandoval Co. New mexico Aug 27 164 sorex _____ ♀ 109-40-12-7 wt., 4.3 gms 165 Peromyscus (boy)ei?)♂ 172-72-22-18 wt. 24.6 gms. 166 " " ♂ 156-66-21-20 wt. 18.07 gms. 167 " maniculatus ♀ 139-59-19-16 wt. 14.8 gms. 168 " maniculatus ♂ 147-66-21-16 wt. 16.1 gms. 169 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ ad Wt. 7.6 gms, 170 Troglodytes aëdon ♀ ad wt. 11.1gms. 171 Tamiasciurus fremarti ♀ 339-137-50-25 wt. 198 gms. Aug 28 172 Sorex _____ ♀ 90-40-11-8 wt. 4.4 gms. 173 " " ♀ 106-42-12-8 wt. 4.4 gms 174 Microtus montanus ♀ 153-42-19-16 wt. 43.1 gms. 175 Eutamias _____ ♀
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S.O. Janeley 1952 Catalogue Aug 27 Jemez Creek, 6 mi NW Bland, 8500 ft Sandoval Co., New Mexico 176 Eutamias ♀ 212-99-31-17 wt. 177 Phrynosoma young 178 " 179 " 180 adult Sandia Pueblo, 6 mi S Bernalillo, 5500 ft, Sandoval Co., New Mexico Aug 30 181 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ ad. wt. 9.5 gms EXCH. COLL. 182 Vermivora virginiae ♂ ad. wt. 8.5 gms. 183 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ imm. No wt! 184 Wilsonia pusilla ad wt 8.1 gms. 184 Wilsonia pusilla 8.0gms. ♂?imm. shot by RTB. 185 " " ♂ ad. wt. 7.8 gms. Sep 1 186 Perognathus flavus ♂ 112-52-15-6 Wt. 7.5 gms. 187 Scaphiopus 188 " 189 " 190 " 191 " 192 " EXCH. COLL. 193 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ ad. No wt. 194 Empidonax difficilis ♂ Wt. 12.0 gms. EXCH. COLL. 195 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ imm. wt. 6.7gms, 196 Zenaidura ♀ No wt! Sept 2, 197 Perognathus flavus ♂ 112-50-16-6 Wt. 6.9 gms. 198 " " ♂ 117-51-16-6 wt. 7.3 gms 199 " " ♂ 118-51-17-7 Wt. 7.6 gms. EXCH. COLL 200 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ ad. Wt. 7.8 gms. EXCH. COLL. 201 Dendroica townsendi ♂ ad. wt. 9.2 gms,
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S.O. Sandry 1952 Catalogue Sept 2 Sandia Pueblo, (mi S Bernalillo), 5500 ft, Sandoval Co, New Mexico 202 Dendroica aestiva ♀ imm wt. 9.3 gms. 20x skeleton townsendi ad wt 10.2 gms 203 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ skeleton 204 Discarded Rotten. Wilsonia pusilla ♀ skeleton 205 Discarded skeleton Dendroica townsendi ? Sept 3 1 mi N Santa Fe, Santa Fe Co, New Mexico 207 192- Peromyscus truei ♀ 192-94-25-26 208 " maniculatus ♂ 137-65-21-19 Sept 4 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, Co, New Mexico 209 Microtus longicaudus ?) Ecthomomys gapperi ?) ♂ 143-49-20-14 wt. 24.1 gms. ♀ 210 " " ♀ 136 -20-12 wt. 23.3 gms. Tenth 6 mm 211 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 141-63-20-17 wt. 16.9 gms. 212 " " ♀ 141-55-20-18 wt. 18.0 gms. 213 " " ♂ 151-61-21-19 wt. 19.3 gms. 214 Picoides tridactylus ♀ wt. 54.0 gms. 215 Tamiasciurus fremonti ♀ 334-133-49-25 wt 248 gms. EXCH, COL. 216 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ ad. wt. 7.6 gms. Sept 5 217 Junco caniceps ♂ imm. wt. 20.4 gms 218 Microtus longicaudus ♂ 133-39-19-12 wt. 20.2 gms. 219 Eutamias (amoenus?) ♀♂ 218-92-32-16 wt. 46.1 gm 220 Tamiasciurus fremonti ♀ 293-117-50-24 wt. 137 gms. 221 " " ♀ 302-112-48-26 wt. 161 gms. 90 222 Eutamias (amoenus?) ♀♂ 193- -31-15 wt. 43.1 gm 223 " " ♂ 202-86-31-16 wt 48.8 gms. 224 " " ♀ 200-82-29-14 wt. 51.9gms. 225 Troglydytes aedon imm. Wt. 10.1 gms.
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8.0. Landry 1952 Catalogue Sept 6 6 mi E Truchas 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico 226 Wilsonia pusilla ♂ imm. wt. 7.8 gms. 227 " " ♂ imm. wt. 7.6 gms. 228 Regulus satrapa ♀ imm. wt. 5.6 gms. 229 " calenula ♂ ad. No wt. 230 Eutamias (amoenus?) ♂ 199-87-32-17 Sept 7 231 Myotis n-12 ♀ 109-46-10-C-10 Wt. 8.9 gms. 232 Microtus longicaudus ♀ No measurements 233 " " ♂ /62-53-19-20 wt 37.7 gms. 234 " " ♂ /69-60-20-12 wt. 33.1 gms. 235 " " ♀ 173-60-20-13 wt. 38.4 gms. 230 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 236 Eutamias (amoenus?) ♀ 215-98-33-14 wt. 49.6 gms. 237 Microtus longicaudus ♀ 178-61-20-13 wt. 56.5 gms. skeleton 238 " " ♀ 176-54-19-14 wt. 42.7 gms. Sept 8 239 Hylocichla ♂ imm. wt. 33.6 gms. 240 " ♀ imm Wt 39.9 gms. 241 Junco ? ♀ imm. wt. 17.4 gms. 242 Wilsonia pusilla wt. 8.2 gms. 243 Sorex ♂ 103-38-12-7 wt. 6.7 gms. skeleton 244 Eutamias ♀ No measurement skeleton " ♂ (183)-59-33-17 wt. 49.1 gms. skeleton 246 Microtus longicaudus ♀ 175-59-18-12 wt. Wt. 44.6 gms. skeleton 247 " ♀ 171-59-19-12 wt. ♂ 33.3 gms. skeleton 248 " ♂ 177-51-17-12 wt. 45.7 gms. Sept 9 16 mi NE Pojoaque 8750 ft, Santa Fe Co, New Mexico 249 Eutamias (amoenus?) ♀ 203 /283-90-31-17 wt. 49.4 gms. 250 " " ♀ 216-97-33-17 wt. 50.7 gms.
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80. Sandy 1952 Catalogue Sept 9 / 6 mi NE Pojoaque, 8750 ft Santa Fe Co, New Mexico 251 Eutamias (amoenus?) ♂ 2/2-98-32-19 wt. 46.4gms. 252 Peromyscus maniculatus ♀ /64-76-19-19 wt. 24.5 gms. 253 Junco caniceps ad Wt. 20.4 gms. 254 Hylocichla ♂ imm. wt. 32.7gms. 255 " ♀ ad. wt. 29.1gms. Sept 10 256 Eptesicus fuscus ♂ /06-44-12 c-13 wt. 17.4 gms. she had plumage. 257 Wilsonia pusilla ♀ ad Wt. 7.9 gms. (Sex checked by 3 people!) 258 " " ♀ ad wt. 7.5gms, 259 " " ♀ ad. wt. 7.9gms. EXCH COLL 260 Dendroica townsendi? imm wt. 9.1gms. Sept 10 261 Peromyscus maniculatus ♀ /70-76-20-19 wt. 36.4gms 262 Regulus calendula ♂? ad, Wt. 6.4gms, 263 Dendroica auduboni ♀ ad. wt 11.2gms. 264 " " ♂ imm. wt. 10.8gms_ EXCH, COLL. 265 " " ♀?imm.. Wt. 10.6gms. EXCH, COLL. 266 Junco caniceps ♂ ad Wt. 17.9 gms. Sept 12, 267 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 158-67-20-18 wt. 22.8gms. 268 " (maniculatus?) ♀ /42-63-20-19 wt. 21.0gms. 269 " " )♀/45-62-20-18 wt. 21.0gms. 270 Eutamias (amoenus?) ♂ 2/5-92-31-19 wt. 46.1gms. 271 Dryobates williamsoni ♂ Wt. 49.4 gms. 272 Regulus calendula ♀ imm. wt. 6.2gms. 273 Parus gambeli 1 mi s Bernardo, 5,000 ft Sgcorro co, New Mexico wt. 10.6gms. Sept 14, 274 Peromyscus ♀ /87-82-23-19 Wt. 34.6 gms. 275 Spiza americana ♂ imm. Wt. 25.8gms. 276 Agelaius phoeniceus ♂ imm wt. 62.9 gmy 277 Geothlypis trichas wt_10.4 gms_
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S.O. Fanelly 1952 Catalogue Sept 14 1 mi S Bernardo, 5,000 ft Sororro Co New Mexico 278 Spizella breweri wt. 13.1gms 279 Rana ____ 280 " ____________ 281 " ____________ Sept 15 282 Peromyscus _________________♀ 184-82-22-18 283 Rana catesbiana 284 " " 285 " " 286 " " 287 " " 288 " " 289 " " 290 " " 291 " " 292 " pipiens
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July 6 Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana set out about 27 museum specials + 5 rod traps in field + wood edge and on into the woods. This region is fast being built up so that in a few more years there will be little woods left. This spot is at the edge of a playground, where the grass is uncut. The woods are the usual Louisiana deciduous trees, chiefly hackberry, live oak, (Quercus virginiana) black gum + osage orange. This area is about 12 feet above sea level, and is in fact, called, the Metairie ridge. I am hoping to get Peromyscus gossypinus, Reithrodontomys humilis, and perhaps R. fulvescens. Also Sigmodon or P. leucopus might be here. Also a good chance for Blarina. This place is not far from the Metairie Park Country Day School, the Metairie Golf club and my trap line runs almost up to the old Illinois Central R.R. tracks (I think that is the line). This place is near Woodbine Avenue, and Duplessis streets. That should fix it pretty accurately. The soil is a rich black humous [illegible] is riddled with crawfish holes. Cottontail rabbits are quite numerous. (Sylvilagus auduboni?) July 7 Picked up traps. 4 mice covered with ants. The skins were completely ruined. Saved the skeletons, however if trapping is done here again I would pick up the catch at 2 hour intervals throughout the night. The catch turned out to be all Mus musculus although they had white feet and bicolored tails so that I at first took them for Peromyscus.
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Aug 11 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co. New Mexico. We left Berkeley on the 4th but owing to various delays, auto accident etc. we only arrived here late yesterday afternoon. This country is only a few miles south of the Colorado line. We entered this place from Cumbres Pass, Colorado. We are about a mile or so from the uppermost reaches of the Rio Brazos. The countryside consists almost entirely of Spruce (sp?) with a great deal of open grassy meadow. I cannot decide what determines the distribution of the Spruce and grass, nether slope, exposure or altitude appear to have much to do with it. I set out 43 museum special mouse traps last night, the resultant catch, 1 Peromyscus maniculatus. He was taken in the spruce forest. We are camped beside a small stream which ultimately joins the Brazos, after cutting to the south. We are just at the edge of a considerable stretch of Spruce, and a smallish patch of grass. Part of that is boggy with distinctly different vegetation. This site is part of the Carson National Forest, but the Brazos itself is on private land. All of this country is grazed by sheep. Their footprints and excrement are everywhere. However, they
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8.0. January 1952 2, Journal Aug 11 11 1/2 mi NE Chama 10,000 ft. Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico. Do not seem to have oversized. It has rained intermittently but not very hard ever since we got here. This morning I started out up the hill from camp to the west. This from a ridge about 200 feet high, rotate separates the [illegible] which run north south [illegible]. The most common birds to be seen were juncos and chickadees. I collected 3 of the latter and 2 juncos. They are all moulting. The juncos seemed to be predominately young ones. I was unable to get a shot at an adult, at all. Ruby crowned kinglets are fairly common. I collected 2 of those. Also. 1 red-breasted nut-hatch. I heard two more of these. Stellers jays are in the space, as also are Canada jays. I took a couple of shots at both of them but without result. Red Shafted Flickers are very much in evidence. Numerous wood- picker next holes are to be found in the dead spruce snags. Presumably these are flickers, since they are very large. I noticed 1 smaller wood-pickers which I could not identify certainly, but which was apparently a Hairy woodpecker. The hillside are, in places, literally ridaled with gopher holes. We have
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8.0. January 1952 Journal 3 Aug 11. 11 1/2 mi NE Chama Co., New Mexico not set any gother traps yet. I shot 2 chipmunks, Eutamias (quadrivittatus?) and 1 deermouse Peromyscus fremonti. Both of these animals are quite vociferous and will doggonously scold us if we disturb them. The chipmunks are quite tame, and may be easily taken with a .38 aux or even a .22 aux. The squirrels are only a little more wary, but on the other hand, they are louder. Rabbit sign is very plentiful. Other members of the party have collected snow-shoe hares. The droppings are found for the most part, among the sage, Never far out in the fields. We have heard horned-owls both last night and tonight. Ward managed to interest him, but could not call him close enough for a shot. Turkey vultures are quite plentiful up here. I have neither heard or seen any frogs in the ponds & streams up here. Bowman has taken Clethrionomys in his traps, and also Sorex palustris. Just at the moment it is getting freezing so that I do not know what kind of luck I will have. I left the traps in exactly the same spots as last night. They are baited with oat meal, which I have never used before. Walnuts might be better in their
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S.O. Jarehy 1952 Journal 4 Aug 11 11½ mi NE Chama 10,000 ft. Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico, night. Yesterday, in searching for our compass, we came upon a Goshawk perched in a tree about 50 feet from the road. Nobody had a gun out so, it went uncollected. The animal life at this high level, is not especially plentiful. It was much richer a couple of thousand feet below than. We camped a couple weeks ago, near Los Brazos, just north of Tierra Amarilla. There we noticed numerous Cytellus lateralis, chipmunks, Gynomys (in the open fields beside the road.) We really should drop down and collect there. We did a little Herp. collecting down there, pulling in a couple of Amblystomas and a Buf. This high country is relatively slim pickings. I shall add an Audubon Warbler # the bird I collected. Aug 12. Checked the traps this morning. It had rained very heavily during the night and several of them were sprung. 1 immature Peromyscus maniculatus out of 42 traps. We had gotten up fairly late and the sun was well up when I got out into the field. I went northward toward the New Mexico line, over a slight rise. Another larger stream than the one we are on flows north her, and presumably drains into the Brazos.
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80. February 1952 Journal 5 Aug 17 [1 1/2 mi] NE Chama, 10000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico in Colorado. The country over here was more open than where I was yesterday. I followed the ridge along the creek. Not only spruce & fir but several small aspen groves were along my route of march. Chipmunks were numerous and tame. I could have easily collected several with a .22 aux at about 15 feet. The chipmunks were mostly in amongst the spruce, with holes in under top. There are a great many fallen and rotting logs in this woods. Today I caught 1 chipmunk in a muzzle special after run-up it was an old one, I would not have believed that it would hold him, but it killed him dead. I seldom see these chipmunks in the trees, and never over 4 feet off the ground. If they are amoenus, than they are quite different in this than the amoenus of Sage Hen Creek, which I frequently have seen high in lodge-pole pines. I noticed 2 of them chasing each other in a little spruce glade. They were quite close (about 25 feet) from to me and did not seem to notice me at all. They did not as a rule chatter at me until I fired the shot-gun. The principal diet of these chipmunks would seem to be spruce cones, although I have not found anything in their pouches yet.
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J.O. Penely 1952 Journal 6 Aug 12 11/2 mi N E Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba co, New Mexico I collected between 6:30-9:00 am: 1 Ruby Crowned Kinglet, 1 Audubon Warbler, 1 Williamson Sapsucker and 2 Canada Jays. The kinglet I collected in a little Aspen grove on the side of the slope, about 75 yards from the creek. A great many birds were in here. Chickadees were thick. I saw at least 2 Audubon's warblers one of which was in pretty good plumage so I collected it. I saw one other warbler apparently a pileolated warbler which I shot at but missed. At any rate it had a yellow belly. This bird stayed up in the tops of the aspens about 30 feet up. The sapsucker was also collected in aspen in a 2nd grove a little further north. I shot at a red shafted flicker at about 50 yds but missed, Western wood pewees were plentiful all over this area. They would allow me to approach to within about 30 yards but then they would fly. However, they sometimes flew to me to much closer distances. These birds were very actively feeding and calling. The two Canada Jays I collected in the grass near the edge of the spruce about 1/2 mi North of camp. These are the most unway jays I have ever seen.
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A. Jewelry 1952 7 Journal Aug 12 11 1/2 mi NE, Chama, Chama, 10,000 ft., Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico shot at one with a .22 aux at about 20 feet. It flew away a few feet. and then flew to the ground and commenced feeding in the green. I shot it there. The other one was in a spruce a few feet up. When I took a bead on it, it flew down and I accommodated it in the green as well. These birds were adult Jt & ? Was the pair bond still present or was this just chance? On my way back to camp, I went down to the creek bed, and walked along there. At a spot about 300 yds from camp. there is a rocky slope, about 100 feet long and 50 feet wide. This is about the only area rocky I have seen here. Down there it is in the middle of a green meadow. Along the stream on the other side were numerous porcupine bankings, some of them fairly fresh. They were all in small spruce trees at less than 20 feet tall. Is the adult spruce bark distasteful to them? Parkys take rocky areas to den in and it is quite possible that he is still there. I suggested to Ward that we trap him, but, he was unenthusiastic. I set a line of Museum specials (42 qt's) in the spruce woods just south of here. At
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10. September 1952 8. Journal Aug 12 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico. Very rainy at the time, so I could set none in the pen. Bowman caught a Clethrionomys and a Zapus last night, and Ross Terry Russell a Thomomys. Terry also dug out an Ambystoma from a gopher hole. The soil up here is deep and loamy. I have yet to see a live rabbit, although sign is plentiful. I saw one bat flying this evening. Terry and Ward took a shot at the great horned owl which has been hooting around here (and still is). They missed. It flew over the clearing on the way to the river. A 2nd owl also perched in a tree, followed it. We also saw a big Buteo (species?). Also a Goshawk flew across the clearing from North to South at the North edge. Aug. 13 Picked up the traps this morning. 2 Peromyscus maniculatus and 1 Clethrionomys gapperi. We got another late start. It did not rain last night, for a wonder. I started off to the East, up the big hill which overlooks camp and dominates the campground. The slope facing camp is rocky but covered with a large aspen grove. There is a good deal of space and pin lower down, but up toward the peak, where the slope is steep, aspen seems to take over. The alpine
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S.O. Semely 1952 Journal Aug 13 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico of pikas in this rocky stuff is rather surprising. I picked up an owl pellet (presumably barned owl) about 6 way up in an aspen grove. It contained the hind end of a gopher. From the top of the hill, you can see the country pretty well. I must correct one impression of the country. There are only 1 creek near camp not 2, it turns at the base of this hill and flows north. It is a bit wider down by the porcupine gnawing described above. Rabbit droppings were numerous in this aspen wood. The slope near the top of the hill is quite steep. Chickadees were numerous in the trees. I noticed 1 turkey vulture soaring across the ridge valley. Also 2 crows. They saw me and veered off so that I could get a shot. The top of the hill, flatten out into a little park-like meadow. Red-shafted flickers were abundant up here. Trees are both aspen and spruce. Western pewees were up here too. The eastern side of the hill is rocky and grassy. Chipmunks were numerous here as were Golden-mantled ground squirrels. I collected 2 of these with half loads. The 2nd one had ducked behind a rock and I had to wait for it to come out. 3 cross-bills flew overhead to the south-east, and settled in lit in the conifers about 300 yards away. Possibly I can collect them there. After
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S.D. Lavelly 1952 Journal 10 Aug 12 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft., Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico shooting the ground squirrel, I worked around the south side of the hill and down to camp. I attempted to estimate the height of this hill above camp. It came out to about 900 feet. Ward's given was 700 feet. This would make the top close to 11,000 ft. Both of the golden-mantle ground squirrels were fat. One was very fat, the other had practically no fat. The leaner fat one weighed 10 grams less than the lean one. I took the cheek pouch contents from one of them. They appeared to be seeds of some sort. Both of these squirrels were on large rocks, which stood up above the smaller rocks. While I was waiting to shoot the 2nd ground squirrel, a chipmunk ran onto the large rock, so that apparently, the squirrels do not object to chipmunks using their promineries. I worked on down to camp, carrying my bag of 2 squirrels. Ward picked up a horned toad near camp! He set Ward instructed Bowman and I in setting gopher traps in the meadow near camp and up on the hill slope to the west. The soil here is soft and loamy and the gophers are big! In the steep mountains of the Sangre de Cristos we may get another species. I found a coyote jaw in the stream near camp, and Bowman brought in a skull from north of there. I have not heard any howlers. With sheep up here they are probably pretty vigorously persecuted. I set 38 mouse traps.
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20. January 1952 Journal 11 Aug 13 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New mexico in the same patch of spruce + fir, but over on it's west edge. Bouman + Terry Runnel set out an equal number. We have set out all the mouse traps in camp for the first time. The Peromyscus which I took show an interesting tail color. We have taken only 1 adult (Lownley #108). It has a much lighter top of the tail than do the many immature ones we have taken. I don't recall this being true of P. maniculatus gambelli, I don't know whether all adults mice are like this one or whether it is a female. Camp Road Hills Game Warden's camp To Colorado Porcupine cutting Stream High Peak Road To The Brazos River Hills High grassy plateau Higher than "High peak" must be 11,000.
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O. Landry 1952 Catalogue 12 Aug 14 11/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico Checked the traps. Absolutely nothing. One tray sprung with mouse hair on the wire. I saw a pine gross-beak in camp close behind the cook-stove. It was a P or young. I took off up the slope of the big hill to the east. marked "High Peak" on the map. The morning was overcast and damp. I saw a weaver in the base of a young spruce tree. From since W.C.R. reported Rock Weavers, I guess this one was the same. The aspens on the slope were full of chickadees as usual. I found a collection of Elevevent, which I think must be deer and not sheep since it was high on the slope in the woods in a situation which I do not think sheep would get into. The top of the peak was pretty quiet today. I saw neither chipmunks nor ground squirrels in the rocks on the east west slope today. In a little open grove about 1/2 mi the middle of the field beyond the rocks I saw june, 2 red-breasted nut-hatches, 3 ringlets and a chipmunk. I could not manoever for a shot at the nut-hatches before they were gone. I panned cross the field to a good size spruce-fir grove, putting a 1/2 load in my shot gun. Naturally, it jammed in the chamber as they always do. Today, I did not have my screw-driver-pocket knife, so I tried to get it out by forcing the ejector by breaking the gun hard. This resulted in breaking one of the lugs that holds the thing together, so now it is kinda wobbly. On top of that, the stock
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S.O. Farenhy 1952 Journal Aug 14 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico in split! I finally patched it up so that it would work. I'll keep firing it until it falls to pieces in my hands. I climbed the slope beyond the high peak, which goes up a couple of hundred feet higher and broadens out into a beautiful lush grassy meadow. There are occasional trees, and a good many fallen logs. This plateau must be at about 11,000 feet. Up here, I spotted Mountain blue birds of which I managed to collect one. It was in poor plumage, an adult ♀. I saw a sparrow hawk take out after a perseverive of some sort. The hawk stooped at it twice, and finally chewed it down the west slope into some conifers. My impression was that the hawk was just about to get the other bird when they were lost to view. I saw one robin at this same spot. Also pine- grosbeaks in the conifers at the edge of the plateau. In a little draw, I walked across the plateau eastward for about a mile. I saw fresh gopher digging in the meadow. The grain in parts of this meadow was waist high. I saw a turkey vulture near the west edge. The wind was blowing pretty hard, and the clouds were rolling over the hills. I saw a fine adult Red-Tailed Hawk soaring over the plateau, near the edge. Since the clouds were coming, I decided to go down over the south side of the
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B.O. Sandby 1952 Journal 14 Aug 14 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico mountain, meet the road, and walk back to camp. This was a good idea in theory, but since there was no sun to give me direction, I lost the road, and set off in the wrong direction. Then it started to rain. Finally I ran into a large herd of sheep, which aroused my suspicions so I about-faced and walked on back. I took shelter from the storm under a spruce grove where I missed a chickadee in good plumage. I saw a white-crowned sparrow in a tree small spruce, about 8 feet high. I shot at him with a .38 gun at about 40 feet. A clean miss! I walked through a small mainly area rather extensive mainly area about 1 mi south of camp along the road. I heard frogs in here. They sounded like Hyla. I tried to track Downclown and got to within about 6 feet of where the voice was coming from at the edge of a small pool, perhaps 6 feet in diameter and 6" deep, but I did not see it. Coming back to camp I watched numerous scinglets feeling in a spruce grove. They are inquisitive little birds and are easily speared ino. I got back to find that Bonner had jammed a .22 load in his gun which was still there. He and I picked up the gopher traps. 1 gopher, a ?. We re-set two sets. I set out 64 museum specials in grassy marsh and woods. I am hoping for--
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D. Savely 1952 Journal 15. Aug 14 - 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba co, New Mexico Zapus and I must get more adult Peromysc u. Jerry Russel found weasel excrement near a gopher burrow and Ward set a schupper, though baited with trout heads. Aug 15 Picked up traps. 3 Peromyscus + 1 Clethrionomys Only 1 adult Peromyscus saved. Set off to the west across the ridge and into the game warden's valley. Chickadees + junco s were numerous on the slope above camp. Red-shafted flickers were flying around. I took a shot but missed. Heard a nuthatch (Red Breasted) calling nearby. This slope is open, grassy with scattered spruces. I collected a Western Flycatcher in an aspen grove. It was very tame, flew to within about 6 feet of me. I had to back off to collect it with a .22 awr. Even then it was cut up some. I walked on over the slope to the east side of the game warden's valley. This slope is thickly covered with spruce and fir. I heard a chuckwaine calling but could not locate him. I did get into a spot where at least 3 of them were calling. I managed to collect one about 30 feet up in a spruce in close to the trunk, trunk. I broke out of the spruce forest at the bottom of the valley, where there is a grassy meadow and a stream. The other side of the valley (West side) is open and gassy with a lot of aspen and some conifers. As I crossed the stream a large Buteo.
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S.O. Lendley 1952 Journal 16 Aug 15 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico hawk, probably a dark Red-tailed, flew out of the cover and soared away to the north along the west ridge of the valley. I could have taken it easily but all I had was half loads. Several Lewises were calling and "flycatching" in the opens. I walked along the edge of a little draw about 50 feet wide and 30 ft deep at it's mouth, which runs up the west side of the valley. Several cross-bills landed in the top of an arpen. I collected 1 ? DeSoreau flew. I also chased 2 Red-Shafted Flickers around this grove. I got a hit one with a .22 aux but it wasn't enough to stop him. I loked below across the slope. On the hill to the west of camp I found fresh porcupine baking on a spruce, about 10 feet stripped off ore. I set 64 mouse traps on the rocky, barely hill to the east of camp. (The slope & "kish ledge") The set ran into the rock-slide about 1/3 1/2 the way up the hill. Aug 16 A chickaree was chattering in the big spruce by our kitchen in the middle of camp as we ate breakfast. I picked up my traps. Tadpot! 10 Peromyscus | Clethronomys and Microtus longicaudus. This stirred such a feeling amongst the boys that tonight I have more company setting traps. Nothing succeeds like success.
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S.O. Stanley 1952 Journal 17 Aug 16 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico. I took off along the stream to the south, following one of Bowman's old trap lines. I spotted 2 missed traps both containing thoroughly dead chipmunks. I shot 1 ♂ Williamson Sapsucker out of a spruce about 15 feet up. He hung up on the trunk dead. This in all spruce along this stream for a good day many trout were to be seen in the deeper pools, although, it is only about 3 feet wide and 4 " deep" on the average. I took a shot at what looked like a warbler, pretty high up. A clean miss. Kinglets (Ruby Crowned) were plentiful in the spruce near the stream edge. I shot a Lincoln's Sparrow out of a small spruce (about 4 feet high) along the stream in the grassy meadow. I noticed a chipmunk in a little dead spruce about 6 feet off the ground, chattering at me. Also saw fresh porcupine bedings. A 20 foot spruce tree was stripped down completely to within 3 feet of the ground. Several trees nearby were also barked. I stalked a white- crowned sparrow but just as I was about to bag the beggar, I discovered that I was practically in the Grane - Warren's camp. Wouldn't he have been surprised to have his tent riddled with #12s! Chickadees were numerous in the trees along the stream on the way back. I set 3 gopher sets on the hill to the West.
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S.O. Sunday 1952 18 Journal Aug 16 11/2mi NE Chama, 10,000, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico of camp. Ward took a meadowlark from a steel trap baited in the chipmunk, I set 33 museum Aug 17 specials in approximately the same spot as the first 12 of last nights live in the rocky stuff to the West. Saw a flock of 7 nighthawks heading south. Aug 17 picked up the traps. 2 lousy immature Peromyscus and a Rustet Backed Thrush. This was a young or birdie being beat up by the trap and eaten by cuts. My Lincoln Sparrow was now lost so I had nothing to put up. I saw a pileolated woodpecker and a Rustet-Backed Thrush while picking up the traps. Nutatches (Red-breasted) were common plentiful around camp, but they stayed up high. I got up on the hill-side to try to collect something! I saw a pileolates parbler moving through the spruce, but it was too active for me to get a shot at. I finally lost it up on the ridge to the south east of camp. I shot a F chipmunk and put it up. I then walked out a short distance up the slope to the Southwest. I heard several cross calling. 4 of them flew over, to high for a shot, heading North. Jerry Russell and I headed out again North-East. We were after a large woodpecker of some kind. We were in thick spruce. Nutatches were duckible and visible but not shokable. I shot a Calliope hummingbird up on the slope in the woods.
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B. D. Samelny 1952 Journal 19 Aug 17 11 1/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000 ft., Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico. It was feeling on a Scrophulariaceae of some sort. Bright red. (The Screph, not the hummer.) We had a good hard rain storm this afternoon. Hail too. The creek had been falling for the last 2 days. This ought to put some more water in it. Aug 18 Broke camp and headed for Santa Fe over the Route 285 thru down the East side of the San Juans. We passed through some beautiful country in Colorado. A great deal of Aspen growing all over the steep slopes. We turned south at Antonito, Colorado. We stopped by the Ranger station at Tres Piedras, N.M. and inquired into likely camping spots in Yellow Pine. They gave us directions to a place called Summit Spring, about 5 miles from T.P. We then proceeded to Santa Fe to pick up mail and money. Mail aplenty but no dough! So we will have to wait over night for a reply to Ward's telegram. We slept out in the brush about 1 mi north of Santa Fe. Sandy soil with Pinon and junipers. Aug 19 Picked up the money about noon, bought our groceries and headed north. Noticed again the great number of humming-birds along 285, feeding, apparently, on a beautiful purple roadside weed. Looks like a Ericiferaeaceae of some sort. We got to Tres Piedras about 4:00 pm. We could not find the goddamn spring - we
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Jewelry 1952 Journal 20. Aug 19 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba co, New Mexico decided to pick up water at the Ranger station and camp in tree at the last spot we are sure of on the road to Fannin Springs. It started to rain almost immediately, a good heavy shower. The tent turned out to be ripped, but we covered the peak with a tarp and made out all right. Aug 20 Started out this morning to find the spring. I headed down off this ridge on which we are camped into the valley where supposedly the Foll Fannin Spring is to be found. The dominant vegetation here is Yellow Pine, together with considerable Aspen, with a lot of scrubby-looking oak, anywhere from 3 to 10 feet high which apparently comes in when the pine is cut-off. Our altimeter shows this as 9000 feet and the pine makes it the "Transition Zone." This is high but according to Bailey (Life Zones of New Mexico) that is as it should be. I espied a Red-Tailed Hawk sitting on a dead tree about 100 yds away and calling. He was in a dead yellow pine about 50 feet up. I tried to maneuver for a shot but he took alarm when I got about 50 yards away. He was sitting up there switching head and tail end around. I collected an immature Chipping Sparrow from a small pine in the camp near the dry stream. There are some very tall and large aspens at this point. There were several sparrows in here, as I walked down the valley I saw a golden-
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O. Jewelry 1952 Journal 21 Aug 20 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico mantled ground squirrel in the branches of an old pine log lying about 40 feet away. I fired at him with a 38 aux. Notably hit him too, but he scampered away. I collected a young Warbling Vireo from the branches of an aspen near the dry creek bed. A flock of 4 or 5, possibly a family group, were there but I could only get the one in spite of several shots. Saw an Audubon's Warbler flying across the valley flats. I collected another immature Chipping Sparrow from a little pine tree. There were several sparrows feeding in the grass. I got a House Marten from a patch of Sage Brush in the valley. The sage becomes thicker and thicker as you go down the valley. There is quite a respectable patch of it in here low down. I cannot decide whether it comes in here because of some temperature difference or whether it is a successional plant replacing the logged out yellow pine. I turned around after walking down the valley a mile or so and headed back up. I saw no signs of Summit Spring anywhere in there. As I came back out to the less sage, more green part of the valley, I saw a large flock of sparrows (25+). I took a shot at one but I had an old shell in the aux - Ha! Ha! I noticed a great deal of Porcupine barking on the pines on the hillside. As I came back to
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S.O. Landry 1952 Journal 22 Aug 20 3 mi SW, Tres Piedras, 9,000 ft, Rio Arribato, New Mexico the road, I saw another large flock of opossums. Took a shot but missed. They were in the grass apparently feeding, and flew up as I approached. I saw another house mouse at this point in more grass and sage. As I did not have much to do I finished early so I went out on the ridge near camp and shot a junco. 2 were feeding on the ground and flew into a small pine at my approach. I took a shot at a chipmunk in a tangle I cut down pine breeter but missed. Set out 50 museum specials in the scrub oak on the east side of this ridge. This is out from underneath the pine cover and since it is raining like hell, some of the traps may be set off. Aug 21. Picked up the traps, 6 Peromyscus maniculatus and 1 Peromyscus (truei? - nasutus?) somewhat damaged by ants. There is a very large ant up here which can really clew up a mouse if given time. Ward had already gotten up to go chasing poor wills so we all got an early start this morning. I started out south over the brow of this ridge to see if I could head off the valley I was in yesterday and hit the spring by a shorter route. I heard 1 chickadee in the pines and collected 1 Brown Headed Nuthatch from a pine about 30 feet up. I passed through a pretty extensive open grow but this was very quiet. No birds at this time. As I was sitting quietly in a little
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8.0. Sandy 1952 Journal 23 Aug 21 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico pines grew up flew a Stellers Jay, which I collected. It was in pretty ragged plumage. It was sitting in a yellow pine about 15 feet off the ground. I could hear more of them in the pines near here but I could not get them in. I saw a flock of 6 or 8 Western Bluebirds feeding on the ground and in a small cork patch. I fired at one of them to no effect. The sound of the shot did not seem to frighten them much. They would flutter a bit but go back to feeding immediately. I proceeded down into a small valley which apparently runs into the one I was in yesterday. I heard a woodpecker pecking. Finally located it on the side of a large dead dogwood. It was a Hairy Woodpecker, which I collected. At this point, I canyoned into another and they both proceeded toward the canyon I was in yesterday. I noticed a great many gopher working in the valley. A small flock of mothbats in grass acre with small pines growing therein. I shot a chipmunk in the rocks along the dry creek. Grassy and a little sage coming in here. A number of rocks in the creek edge. Sage becomes more prominent. A little lower down there is a good stand of sage. I shot another chipmunk in this. They are quite plentiful in here. This is Eutamias minimus, a little fellow. A number of Sceloporus in the rocks. Shot one but no .22 aux, but cut him
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80. Tandy 1952 Journal 24 Aug 21 3 mi sw Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arribaco, New Mexico. in half. Noted humming birds in here. Couldn't determine species. Put out 50 museum special in the scrub oak & cypress to the south of camp. Thunderstorm came up on all sides of us, so we decided to go to Tres Piedras and get off this mud. A terrific downpour came on, lightning was hitting all over the San Juan + Sangre de Cristos. We spent the night in the barn of the ranger station at Tres Piedras. Hail as well as rain. Aug 22. We returned to camp. Picked up traps. About half were sprung. 3 Peromyscus maniculatus 1 still alive. I took out to the north today along "Camp Ridge" Bines + aspens give way to an open field, pretty extensive. I saw a flock of half dozen Buthatchers (---Pygmy), of which I collected one. The open field contain 2 houses. Scrub-oak, myrtle about 6 ft high and young pines are both in evidence here. The drainage is to the west. A flock of Bluebirds 2 flew to xand mi 10 feet & me but I got no shot. Also Gray headed Junos and a Red Shafted Flicker. I collected a Pine Siskin from a pine about 3 feet tall in the middle of an open field. I heard a chickadee, as well as numerous juncos, bluebirds, and brown- headed nuthatch. I kicked out 3 Band-Tailed Pigeons from the ground beneath an oak thicket. They flew off to the south. Noticed a good deal
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8.0. Sunday 1952 25 Journal Aug 22 3 mi SW Tres Piedras 9,000 ft Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico of porcupine barking on the small yellow pines. The field ends at the north end of the ridge and then there are pitch scrub oak patches. Dropping down into the valley which runs west (west) across at the north end of "camp ridge", we enter extensive open forests. A good understory of fast high odds, and other plants is here so the mouse trapping should be A-1. The Aspen is mainly on the south side of the valley. On the east is really cut-over pine. As the elevation drops, Thrice Sage comes in particularly on the north slope. Heard a Chipmunk in the rocks along the dry creek bed. 2 chipmunks flew across the valley from dead aspen to an oak patch. I collected a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel in the grass and sage, near a large Aspen log. It had a green leaf in its mouth some form but I could not find the plant. This animal was the fattest ground squirrel I ever stumped. There must have been "1/4" over the base of the tail and shoulders. I collected a junco, immature, at the edge of the dry creek, which, was quite muddy however. I took a shot at a Mourning Dove in a dead Aspen among the sage but no effect. I hit him with a .38.. He was about 15 feet off the ground. I also put a men out of a little oak, but lost it in the sage.. As the valley drops lower, the
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8.0. Sunday 1952. Journal 26 Aug 22. 3 mi S W Tres Piedras, 9,000 ft Rio Arriba Co New Mexico sage disappears once more and the pine and aspen come back! This has nothing to do with exposure because the valley curves around, and faces just one directly south as did the sage patch. I found 2 large fir tree and 1 large Doug fir growing alone among the pines. What this means I don't know. They were both large healthy trees. I followed the dry creek until it hit a fence line about a mile down from the ridge. Then in dense brush along the creek bottom, I saw several bluebirds among the aspens, I acted very flycatcher-like, pursuing flying insects from a perch. Shot a Warbling Vireo from an aspen. I noticed a good many beefer digging on gopher mounds in the grassy valley. Flock of 25+ Chipping Sparrows among the grain + trees. After supper we went down the road towards town after poorwills. We saw a young Porcupine cross the road, and go into a little oak patch at the base of a big pine. We poked him with a stick but no action. Jerry Russell and I shot up several rounds of .38 at bats, probably Eptesicus. No captures. we drove the roads after Poorwills. Saw 3 but no shots. I set out 50 mouse species about 600 yds south of here in heavier brush
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S.O. Lanchy 1952 Journal 27 Aug 22 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico No rain tonight. Aug 23 Picked up the traps. 3 Peromyscus maniculatus, one damaged by ants. On the way out I collected a Grace's warbler from about 15 feet up in a pine tree. It was among a large flock of brown headed Nuthatches. I saw a Clark's Nuthatcher flying over the north end of the ridge. It turned towards me but I did not get a shot. On the way back from the line, I shot a Townsend's Warbler, in an oak patch about 4 feet off the ground. I had gotten a little mixed up and found myself on a high peak about 200 yds from camp. There the warblers were fighting after covering considerable distances. I dropped my catch at camp and returned here. I shot a Hellen's Jay out of a pine tree about 60 feet away, and about 25 feet up in a yellow pine. I noticed on top of the hill a marker of some sort, a wooden frame filled with stones. I collected a Grosbeak, Black headed in the oak thickets on top of the hill. I collected another Townsend's Warbler from a pine tree, right in the top, about 20 feet up. It was with a flock of Nuthatches. These warblers are flying high and fast, they hit a few trees tree for a few seconds and then fly on a hundred yards or so. Only relatively rarely do they stop to thoroughly work over a tree. I collected a Brown Headed Nuthatch just to round out the record. There are dozens of them in there. They are as thick as
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S.O. Jantty 1952 28 Journal Aug 23 3mi SW Tres Piedras 9000ft Rio Arriba Co New Mexico chuckadees in other areas. Chuckadees are relatively uncommon, I did see a couple today, 1 about 20 feet away, marking over a small pine tree, I finally collected a pileolated warbler working though an oak treetops. A fin good plumage, but he was rather hard hit. I set out 50 museum specials, near camp in the mount point oak thickets. However the rain has begun and I'm afraid it will spring the traps. Tres Piedras Road camp "Camp ridge" N Highest peak Road ends here. Dry creek Scare Brush ? Sawmill Springs? Logged off yellow Pine with oakest aspen and a few last year brokido, Fence Road Dry creek Scare brush
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8.0. Sunday 1952 Journal 29 Aug 24 3mi S W. Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico Picked up the trap . 3 Peromyscus. 1 of them looks a little off so I put it up. Tail doesn't look like treel but it doesn't look like mammalatus either. Boylei? I hreeled East along the road, and then took off to the North. I collected a Flicker from the top of a pine tree about 50 feet up. I shot at a Hairy Woodpecker which flew suddenly into gun range in front of me but I missed. This woodpecker was wasting over the pines trees working from the base up, spiraling around the trunk, and flying to the base of another tree as soon as it finished the first. I have now reached an East-Mont Ridge which runs back of camp somewhere. A Clark's Nutcracker flew over along it about 100 yds away. I shot a flapping bird in an oak thicket on the north side of the ridge. I have no idea what it is, either a grosbeak or a tomtec. I put it up though. A large flock of Spiny Nuthatches with a couple of Chickadees (mountain) mixed in passed by near in the oak thickets and pines on the north slope. I wander flew into a tree near me and out of it again fast. That is the way they are acting here now, tearing around the country-side like nobody's business. The ground cover over here is much thicker. A nuthatch flew to within about 6 feet of me, at about eye-level on a dead oak limb. I sawa Wardling Vireo in oaks at edge of an open patch. Vireos seem more partial to open than ols
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S.O. Landry 1952 30 Journal Aug 24 3mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba Co New Mexico the warblow. 2 Stellar Jay went of down the valley calling furiously. I saw a large Red Tailed Hawk with very dark wing lining soaring over the ridge. He circled higher and higher over me. 2 parsonines were attacking him at first but they dropped away as he gained altitude. Stellar Jay and Clark Nutcrackers very excitedly proceeding along the ridge to the west. The ridge referred to on this page in another or, across a valley from the one on the preceding page. The dry creek in the valley is dammed with a check-dam which forms a pool, presumably for watering stock. I shot at 1 of the Stellar jays with a .38 auto but it didn't face it. I saw a good bit of what looks like deer excrement, in the thick oak patches on the far ridge. I found a patch of some sort of garum growing up here. It is small but perfectly good Spanish dagger type of stuff. I saw what appeared to be a different Red-Tailed Hawk at the south end of the ridge; at least, its wing coverts were not so dark. I collected a Green Tailed Towhee from an oak thicket. A chipmunk was in here too. (E. minimus?) Western Blue-birds were plentiful in the grass below the check dam. A great many violet-Green Swallows were flying over head. I saw a Band-Tailed Pigeon flying high over the valley. I saw
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Aug 24 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico. 2 turkey vultures over the far ridge circling. Another hairy woodpecker hit a pine tree within easy range. I raised the gun, I fired... a spent shell was in the gun! Ho Hum! I tried a few more shots at violet green Snailors with a 22 au without success. They were circling around a dead tree on top of a ridge close to camp. Tonight I set out 100 (count 'em) 100 mouse traps, and I'll catch some Peromyscus truei-nasutus or know the reason why! Aug 25 Picked up the traps. 10 Peromyscus maniculatus, 1 Peromyscus truei and 1 Microtus longicaudus. This last was taken in a small oak patch under Aspen. Bailey calls this a Canadian zone species which occasionally enters the Transition along cold mountain streams, associated with Canadian zone plants. What folithmen. A part of the specimen was young and somewhat damaged by ants, as were most of the specimens. I put up 4 of the P. maniculatus, the truei and the Microtus. I did not go out but shooting this morning. I went out about 10:30. The boys told me it had been a bad morning and it certainly was for me. I went up the high hill in back of camp to see if I could find martlets. I saw none, a couple Clark's Nutcrackers were flying around the hill top, landing in tree tops and calling. The only other bird life up there was a flock of
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8.0 Sanelly 1952 Journal 32 Aug 25 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico. juncon. I collected 2 of these. The first was un- remarkable and in terrible plumage. I only saved a couple of tail feathers on it. The second one which I shot in a tangle of fallen pine barks, had a white patch on its crown, and was a larger bird than most of the juncons I have seen. It is #163 in this catalogue. We had a brisk thunder and hail storm this afternoon as we did yesterday afternoon. We went into Tres Piedras, where the bartender at the Three Rocks Cafe told us that there were a great many "water dogs". We looked for some near, a "pond", which is just a rain-filled pungy where adobe mud is removed, and found 1 small one. It looks like Ambystoma tigrinum. This is a sage-brush desert. The elevation at T.P. is somewhere about 8200 feet. The only vegetation in Sage-Brush. We returned here late and since I can cook now, I set no traps. We plan to leave here tomorrow for Los Alamos to collect Stebbins some salamanders. Aug 26 Broke camp and headed south for Stebbins Plethodon neomexicana type locality. We passed down through good cactus desert, back into the Ternay mountain, south of Los Alamos. We climbed back into Canadian zone, which is much drier here. We collected an Ambystoma and a
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20 January 1952 Journal 33 Aug 26 Temez Creek (6 mi NW Bland, 8500 ft, Sandova) Co. New Mexico: couple of Hylas at a little pond at 9,000 feet, and drove on to make camp at a U.S. Natl. Forest camp ground. Which appears deserted. Most of the land around is owned privately but we had the good fortune to find the owner and get permission to collect. This site is along a creek (Temez Creek) which runs through a very steep canyon. The water is quite muddy now anyway and is marked "Unsafe for Drinking". The ground cover under the trees is thick and damp. Dominant vegetation is spruce and Douglas Fir. We passed by an extensive mountain meadow, about 4 miles long and 2 miles wide not far from here. It supports the largest population of sparrow hawks I ever seen in one place - 5 or 6 would fly up in the same 50 feet stretch of highway. I set out 26 museum specimens along the canyon wall among the rocks, and brush. Aug 27 Picked up traps. I threw 2 Peromyscus (boy)ei?) and 8 Peromyscus maniculatus. I spent part of the morning putting up these mammals. I set off about noon up the canyon (east). I shot can (pileo)tated Warbler from about 6 feet up in a spruce. A large flock of chickadees were nearby, and indeed, they are plentiful again. Beards montanis are plentiful up here a couple of hundred yards. They are working on a tongue which is fully 2-feet through the base. They have already cut one almost as large. There seem
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J O. Sondley 1952 Journal 34 Aug 27 Jemez Creek, 6mi NW Bland, 8500 ft, Sandovl Co New Mexico to be no lodge properly speaking and yet I can hardly figure than cutting a den in the canyon walls which are solid granite. I saw and shot at, at least 2 more pileated woodpeckers on the way up. I shot a chipmunk. There are either gradunculus or cinerosus I don't know which. I notice that the white face masks are very white and that there is a blackish patch in front of the ear. I shot a chukar from about 20 feet up in a Douglas Fir. A & G also collected a house wren from the brush along the canyon side. A hawk, possibly a Cooper Hawk. flew down the canyon past me. I saw a baby Peromyscus maniculatus scuttling through the grass near the creek edge. What on earth he was doing out by himself I don't know. I picked him up. he was about 1" long, head and body, with possibly another inch of tail. I released him and he hopped out of my hand to the ground, about a foot and scuttled into the grass. [illegible] I missed a garter snake which sculled into crevise before I could touch him. He had been running on a rock. I set 25 mouse traps in the grass near camp for Marten which Brown took last night, but I caught nothing during the day although there were spring traps. I left them out tonight and hope to do better. I should mention that the
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S.O. Sandoval 1952 Journal. 35 Aug 27 Jones Creek, 6 mi NW Bland 8,500 ft, Sandoval Co, New Mexico: beaver are feeding on an open grove on top of the ridge, about 75 yards up a 45° slope. They have felled quite a bit of it up there. They have a well worn path, slippery and muddy. They seem to cut the boughs for in the canyon only for engineering and not for food. A good many nice aspen logs are down in their pond. I noticed chipmunks feeding up tree today. One in particular I watched feeding on pines heads. He would reach up under his paws bend over the stalk and cut off the head, after which he would sit on a rock and watch me. Another had a more acrobate procedure. It would climb up the stem of a stiffer more woody plant until the plant bent over with its weight, whereupon it would cut off the head, and retire to the surface of a large rock couple of feet away to eat and watch me. I was about 15 feet away. Those chipmunks are very tame. Aug 28 Picked up the traps. I saw the trap line last night before bed and took out a shrew. It was alive and kicking, caught by the tail. Bit me about 6 times. This morning there was another shrew 1 micrurus longicaudus and 1 M. montanus. The longicaudus was a young one. I had got it bed in the cook shack, because of Ward's snaring. Jerry had set a couple of mouse traps there near the food boxes. They were
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S.O. Landry 1952 Journal 36 Aug 28 Jemez Creek, 6 mi NW Bland, 8500 ft, Sandoval Co, New Mexico within reach of my bed, as every time they went off, I turned on the flashlight, reached over, killed the mice and re-set the trap. Mice are almost never killed out right by a mouse trap. They are paralyzed in the hind legs, and pinned there until's cold or starvation finishes them off. If only the hard-hearted people knew this! The total score was 5 and doubtless would have been more had I stayed awake to keep re-setting them. I put up my catch + 2 chipmunks held over from yesterday. A good number of fishermen were in here today so me had to hold down the shooting. I took off up the high ridge north of camp. This is a steep climb. The slope is 45° or better into Doug. fir needle and soft loose rocks underfoot. Once out of the camp of this creek the spruce disappears and it is all Doug-fir and aspen about 100 feet up. This is what the classics would call "a local reversal of life zones due to cold air draining along the creek bottom." Over the ridge on the other side I found an open south-facing slope with a few yellow pines and a little of the scrubby oak growth of Tres Piedras. There are scattered yellow pines all over these hills, most of these big ones minus strongly suggests to me that these hills were once yellow pine. I saw 2 Purr-et-Backed Doves on the ridge in dense Douglas fir. Chickadees were numerous
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Journal. Aug 28 Tomez Creek, 6mi NW Bland, F500ft Sandoval Co New Mexico exactly as in the Canadian Zone spuce prents. I did not see a nutcatch at all. I picked up 3 little Horned Toads in the little grassy, piny slope mentioned above. I found out an adult Horned Toad on the ridge over-looking camp under the Douglas Fir. It rained like all get out tonight. I didn't set out any traps. Wasps floated away, a lot of 'em, leaving us even shater of traps: Aug 28. Broke Camp early in the morning and went-in to Santa Fe for mail. We checked at the Fish & Game to get the permit altered, so that Pearson, who is coming out, may collect. We saw the opening of the annual Santa Fe fiesta, and then next to sleep in the bush, in the same spot we previously slept in. It hadn't changed a bit. Aug 30 Came down to Fort Albuqerge to pick up the truck. It was not ready and furthermore, Miller's check bounced, so that we have to wait a couple of days. Ward is hell bent for election or going deer hunting and is going to leave as truckless in the bush. We hunted all over for a nearby place to camp and finally came up with this one, which is in the middle of an archery range. It is his Grande Valley, cotton woods where there is water, and sage and caestus where there is not. We have 20 gallons of water and groceries.
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S.O. Lemley 1952 Journal 38 Aug 30 Sandia Pueblo, 6 mi's Bernalillo, Sandoval to New Mexico a plenty so we should make out all right. Ward shot a screech owl a little while ago. Bounan has done yeoman service in setting out all the traps. Reports of Pipostomys are numerous so we should get something. I hope things pick up shortly. This camp is in the midst of a large grove of cotton woods along an irrigation ditch. The Santa Fe main line runs uncomfortably close, but at least they don't blow the whistle here. Aug 31 Dr. Russell took off on schedule this morning. Both traps yielded only 1 Lepus and 1 Onychomys. Bob went out to shoot varblers and I went out to set steel traps for ground squirrels. I caught none. There were hundreds of Cnemidophorus running around all over the ground. They are impossible to catch, and if shot with a .22 aux, they disintegrate. I returned to camp to find Bounan lance deep in varblers. This cotton-wood grove is an ideal place for them. Apparently this strip of cotton-woods along the Rio Grande constitutes these the principal, indeed the only good, migration route for Rocky Mountain birds headed south. I went out myself and shot 3 in the space of an hour. 2 Pileated and 1 Virginian's. I saw a Hairy Woodpecker but missed a shot, about 30 feet up at the top of a cotton-wood. Dr. orders arrived about 2 in the afternoon to tell us that we have been had!
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8.0. Sunday 1952 Journal 39. Aug 31 Sandiafuedo, 6mi S Bernalillo, 5500 ft, Sandoval Co, New Mexico The Indian who sold us camping rights to this land does not own it! However the one ory men, who have leased the land from another Indian are were quite reasonable and agreed to let us stay as. It's just as well. We couldnt possibly move. One of them had killed a blue-tailed skunk which Bob promptly pickled. I set out 30 odd museum specials, in a dry wash in the desert, out from under these trees. I also set 3 steel traps baited with bacon on the ditch bank along the irrigation ditch. If there are any skunks or coons in this country; that is where they should be. We picked up several Scaphiopus (sp?) including the largest one I ever saw. It is as big or bigger than the largest Bufo. I took it out of the ditch, in which the flow has largely stopped. Apparently, they cut it off when it is not needed. This explain the pavity of water vegetation there. The desert plants go right to the edge of the water. Scaphiopus seem to be almost as plentiful at night as Cnemidophorus are during the day. Sept 1 Quite a number of archers in here today, Nothing in the steel traps. I Levogrether in the museum species. This is P. Flavus which Bailey calls "possibly the smallest North American rodent." I believe him. The wonders
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S.O.Sanley 1952 40 Journal Sept 1 Sandia Pueblo, 6 mi S Bernalillo, 5,500 ft, Sandoval Co, New Mexico were plentiful today. I shot a couple of piletated warblers. Saw a large flock of scaled grait in here; in the thick grass near the south edge of the cotton wood patch. Shot a house wen in the brush along the ditch bank. Too poor to put up. I also killed a Mourning Dove which was perched up on a limb. I killed him with a .38 carb. I found out that today was the opening of Dove season the hard way. Dave dumb son - op's ditch rained shot all over our camp. Furthermore, he got his car stuck and I had to get him out. I set the steel traps again and about 35 mouse specials in the dry wash in the desert. Bob and I saw the traps at night. It bright moon was shining but we found that the mice are active in the shadow. Therefore, went till moon-rise and set your trap in the shade! We picked up one Perognathus flams and watered and for we piper the bait from a trap. A screech owl was calling lustily over our sleeping bags and swooping though our camp in the moon light. Too lazy to shoot him. Sept 2. Picked up traps. I still carried away without a trace. I more Perognathus in the mouse special. I shot 4 Townsend's Warblers, 3 Pileated and 1 Yellow Warbler in about 2 hours. Bowman left to get Pearson in town.
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2.O. Sunday 1952 41. Journal Sept 2. Sandia Pueblo, 6 mi S Bernalillo, 5,500 ft, Sandoval Co, N.M. They arrived late in the afternoon. We drove camp and went to Santa Fe. We spent the night in the brush 1 mile north of Santa Fe. I set 30 mouse traps. Sept 3. 1 mi N Santa Fe, Santa Fe Co, New Mexico. Picked up traps. We moved around getting instructions from various people and finally came up here on this road beyond Truchas. We have set up camp in a valley at 9,200 ft, in Canadian Zone, I think. The trees are some sort of spruce and fir. Thicket forested with an occasional meadow. We are camped along a small stream in somebody's property. But he ain't here. Nobody is there. There is a field of barley and one of potatoes all growing in the middlemen. A good deal of logging is going on here. I lost 45 museum specimens in the fallen logs near here. Sept 4. 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico Picked up traps. 2 M. longicaudus and 8 P. maniculatus I made skeletons out of 3 of the 4 marmots from Sandia Pueblo. I hunted up on the slopes of the father hill among the fallen logs. Took a shot at a Eutamias (amoerus?) missed. Chipmunks seem to be doing well among their fallen logs. Shot at a Tamiasciurus fremonti in this same region. Minied him. Chickarees are numerous in here. They seem to spend a lot of time on or near the ground in these fallen trees. I didn't
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S.O. Sunday 1952 42 Journal Sept 4 b mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico I know whether this means they have moved in to this area after the cutting or whether they were living in the trees and have stayed on after the cutting. The trees are on the ground, cut into 10 foot lengths ready for hacking. The tree here seem to be preponderantly Douglas Fir with some spruce and strew fir, and, a little lower down, a few yellow pines. Doug Fir is called a transient zone species and I suppose that what this even should be. I don't believe it, though. Bailey hardly mention Doug fir, and I suspect it is a successional stage which comes in after yellow pines has been cut out. I collected a Three Toed Woodpecker about 10 feet up on a dead spruce snag. A F'm poor plumage. I came back to camp for lunch, put up the Woodpecker and set out again. Shot a Chickadee this time, a & with well developed teats. Not lactating though... The chickadees are extremely tame. You can easily get 'em with a 38. Also collected a Lilacated Warbler near the stream. Pearson made a number of gopher sets and got several. We at first mistook the Microtus corycanthus for Clethionomys, there was even a reddish cast to the beak, but cutting away the maxeter revealed rootless teeth so that settled that... We did some bat shooting here in the valley at sundown. Pearson got 3, The rest of us 0. I set out 45 mm cam specials in a
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S.O. Lemley 1952 Journal 43 Aug 4 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico - slightly difficult area. A lot of them are in boggy ground, criss-crossed with fallen timber. Aug 5 Looked in traps. 1 Microtus longicaudus, I decided to leave them in place to see if any Microtus are out during the day. I went off up the hill to the East of camp. I shot a house wren in the rail fence at the side of the field above camp. Chipmunks are numerous here. A large stand of Aspen crowds up to the edge of the fence. It is interesting to note the conifers seeding in under the aspen, while the aspen seedlings are under in the open field. I made my way up the hill among the conifers.. There is undoubted Douglas Fir and undoubted spruce in here. I can not really tell them apart especially the seedlings . I also saw some white pine up there too. I don't know what zone this is supposed to represent. Doug fir is supposedly Transition but Fir and Pine are certainly Canadianum. The aspen is certainly a successional stage, at least in parts of the place in which it is found. I heard a Steller's jay up here but did not get a shot. I fired at a Chickadee on the side of a fir, apparently without effect. This squirrel was about 20 feet up in the tree , about 50 feet away. When I fired, he ran down the tree to the ground and ran off through the woods. The top of this hill is covered with aspen many of which are knocked down, giving a sort of
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Sept 5 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arribalo, New Mexico Country difficult to walk in. I scared up a deer in this and it went thundering off through the woods. Many of the small aspens show signs of browsing, so that deer are fairly plentiful. I went back down to camp. The way I came up, shooting a chipmunk and a chickaree near the rail fence. I spreaded out 2 house-wrens. They seem quite plentiful in this timber. I collected a piece from the alders near the stream in camp. Ran my trap line again. 2 chipmunks and a Chickaree were in it. At 3:15 pm gave only 1 chipmunk but 4 sprouts traps. I suspect the chickarees were raiding them. The chickaree was killed dead. You would not think a museum special could kill a star chickaree. I left the traps out in the same location tonight. This evening's bat shoot was a complete blank. No hits. Sept 7 Looked at traps, 1 immature Peromyscus maniculatus. I decided to do most of my hunting near the stream Warblers were plentiful but traveling fast and for the most part high. I got 2 pileolated warblers and 1 ruby crowned kinglet also a house wren. These were all killed in the aspens or alders along the creek bank. When I got back to camp, I took off after several birds. I got a golden crowned kinglet in terrible plumage about 30 feet up in a spruce. I fired several shots at a Stellar's jay without
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5.0. Sarody 1957 Journal 45 Aug 6 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico effect. Juncos were plentiful. Several chickadees were calling working through the fire and aspens. After lunch I went up in the fields to the North East of here to shoot a juncus when out of nowhere a goshawk flew over me from behind about 20 feet up. I only had a .22 awe, but I let fly with that. It had no effect. He hit the ground about 50 yards away and then flew off to a tree. I suppose he picked up a micratus. Pearson left about 10:30 this morning for Truchas Peak. It in about 5 miles and 3,000 feet. He is going to stay over night and set traps up there or at any rate in the Hudsonium someplace. We had what the weather man would call a "partly cloudy" afternoon but no rain. I decided to move my traps to the field on the hill. I saw a micetus up there, and runway are abundant. The chipmunks up there are eating thistle heads among other thing. I watched them dismounting these and there are great piles of the feefrey plumes around. The chickadees seem to live largely on cones. I watched one cutting them out of a spruce tree and dropping them on the ground. Apparently the squirrel eats a lot of them and then run down to eat them. The conceal some of them in holes and under logs exactly like grey squirrels. Chipmunks seem to subsist very largely on weed seeds of various sorts. I cannot I move in my snow traps today.
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20 January 1952 Journal 46. Aug 6 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba, New Mexico The field above, with its myriads of open tops is full of chipmunks and the problem is going to be how to keep the chipmunks out of the traps so the Microtus can get in. I got one bat tonight. A Myotis I think. They were quite plentiful that evening but flying very fast. A little breeze has sprung up, and it feels quite Fallish. Aug 7 Checked traps. 2 Peromyscus and 2 Microtus longicaudus. I checked the traps at intervals throughout the day. The total bag was, in addition to the above, 5 M. longicaudus and 2 Eutamias. I was surprised at so few chipmunks. Several pairs of mountain climbers appeared today, all heading in the direction of Truchas Peak. Bon Voyage! I went up on the high ridges to the south west of here, after first shooting along the creek for marmots, I got spiculated. The ridge was steep and 3-400 feet high. The dominant trees on its top is White Pine and into the disappearance of the papery-coned Doug fir or Engleman Spruce. The chickaree also checks out. There are a few yellow pines in among the white pine, a situation which I think is unusual. What Zone do you call that, Mr. Merriam? I shot 2 (Russet-Backed?), Thrushes up here. Two young birds, I suspect that these are Hermit Thrushes. Even if they are big and have-
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S.O. Jewelry 1952 47 Journal Aug 7 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico a sort of a buffy eye ring, tha also have a red tail. On the way down the slope I took a shot at a Hellb[illegible] guy but I missed him. Chickadees were numerous. A chickaree begun cursing me out in plain view about 10 feet away. I could almost have collected him with my gun butt. Peerson returned from Truchas peak to report that there are Peromyscus maniculatus there. Tomorrow we leave here. I have left my traps cut, but will probably skeletonize the resultant mice. All timber area heavily logged. Ridge covered with white tire Stream Gate Road To Truchas Truchas Peak camp. cultivator Field N Root eats, Hill Building (Aspens)
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S.O. Jewsbury 1952 Journal 48 Aug 8 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico picked up the traps I was Micrastus. I made a whole batch of skeletons out of these mics + chipmunks. We cleaned up a bit and broke camp. Headed into Cordoba for mail and groceries. We decided to move into yellow pine frampet to see what it's like on this side of the valley. We drove up the road from Cordoba- towards Borreys Mesa in the Santa Fe National Forest, and have pitched our camp here on the side of a slope, a little way aboom from the road. The timber is yellow pine and Douglas Fir. I heard a chickadee chatter as we drove in. These creatures follow the soft cored Doug fir, and are not strictly "Canadian zone" animals. This spot is about 6-7 miles from Cordoba, but since that is in Rio Arriba Co and this is in Santa Fe Co, we are taking the distance from Pojoaque 16 mi NE therefrom. The altitude here is 8750 ft. Cordoba boasts the latest post-mistress in Northern New Mexico. I set a trap line out under the pines and Doug fir, following a dry wash for a way and then into Gambel oak which is fairly conspicuous here but not so much so as at our Tres Piedras camp. Pearson shot 3 bats, 1 Myotis and 2 Eptesicus.
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S.O. Sanderly 1956 Journal 49 Aug 9 16 mi. NE Pojoaque, 8750ft, Santa Fe Co New Mexico Picked up traps, 4 Penelopeus manifestus and 1 chipunk. I decided to cross the ridge to the north of us and drop down to the Rio Medio. On top of the ridge, yellow pine with an understory of gambel oak and young pine was swarming with birds, none of which I could hit. Species seen were Townsend's warbler, White Breasted nutcratch, Russet - beaked (or Hermit) Thrush, and numerous Pigeon Nut hatches. Once again they are the dominant bird here Chickadees were present but not numerous. The south slope of this ridge is surprising. In addition to the ubiquitous yellow pine, there was Piñon, juniper, and Spanish dagger. This slope is steep and gravelly. The descent to the river must be about 700 feet. At the bottom of the slope, the vegetation is Douglas Fir, Spruce and true fir. I saw a chickadee down three cutting cones from a tree about 50 feet up, carrying them down, taking them about 100 yds, and apparently caching them. He took 1 cone at a time, cutting it off, carrying it down the tree not tossing it out as they sometimes do. The Rio Medio is a beautiful little creek, maybe 2 feet deep and 10 feet wide. I returned to camp.
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S.O. Lively 1952 Journal 50 Aug 9 16 mi N.E Pojoaque, 8750 ft, Santa Fe Co, New Mexico and a missed climb it was. I saw a Cooper Hawk go over the field to the north flying fast and high. A raven passed low over camp late in the afternoon. It chance for a shot. I set left the traps out pickers out a few chipmunk and set a steel trap up the road in a faint trail beside a log. Baited it with chipmunk. I hit a bat during the evening but shot but couldn't find him. I'll try tomorrow. The area in which I set my trap contained the following plants, Yellow pine; Douglas fir, Gambel oak, a thick under-story of young spruce and on the shallow soil on the bare rocks, cactus. What Zone, Mr. Monicus? Aug 10 Picked up traps. I Peromyscus maniculatus & here better move this trap line. I found the bat I shot last night. It was an Epitesius Tuscus and it was not 6 feet from where I had been standing. I set out of the road from here to the most east. Yellow pines for the most part with a thick under-story of gambel oak. Some areas, however, have no oaks but a good plantation of young pines. I do not see what the difference is. The Nat'l foots Forest Road Engineer stopped by and according to him, this area has never.
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S.O. Landry 1952 Journal 51 Sept 10 16 mi NE Pojoaque, 8750 ft, Santa Fe Co, New Mexico been cut over. People have come in to cut "vigas" or beams for adobe houses, occasionally, but the forest has never been logged off. However, it has been, and is being grazed. What effect this might have on the succession I don't know. I spent the morning chasing warblers. The Townsendi Warblers seemed to be high over head in the yellow pines, while the pileolated warbler were working the gambel oak down low. One of my pileolated Warblers was a ♀, she had a whopping big ovary, which was in ♂ plumage, that is she had a well developed black cap (Landry #257). I later had a good shot at ravens as they flew croak- ing over head, but had only .22s in the gun at the time. It began to rain this afternoon but cleared off by night-fall.. I walked up another road that the ranger told us about a little way but didn't find anything. The pines become much purer up the slope away. Nothing but big, old yellow pines. I set out my trap line up where my steel trap was set in thick Juniper, Spruce, and gambel oak. Catch should be better. Sept 11 Picked up traps. 5 Peromyscus maniculatus including 1 large old grand-mother, 170mm in total length. I got together a series of 8 ages of Peromyscus and took a color shot. On the road I found a little baby Peromyscus maniculatus which
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8.0 January 1952 Journal 52 Sept 4 16mi NE Pojoaque, 8750 ft Santa Fe Co New Mexico could not have been sadder than a couple of days old. Its eyes were closed and it sucked at the milk I fed it from a spoon. Maybe I dropped it mammary and it was starving. Didn't turn. I did a little shooting in the field below camp, that is to the North West. I shot principally Audubon's warblers : I took 3 which had only faintly yellow throats. I assumed of course, that they were all juveniles, but to my astonishment the one with the subvent throat, which has just faint yellow washings, had a completely doubled skull and must be an adult. Is that a hybrid with the Myrtle Warbler ? The tail seems to be typically Audubon warbler. I made a steel trap set at the mouth of a large burm in which I found fresh earth. I shot a Ruby Crowned Kinglet in good plumage. Took down one of yesterday's larks. I am still getting the wings turned around on some of them. I left the trap out in the same place, hoping for the best. I got a claymole in the line during the day. Oh well. It is getting ready to rain like hell tonight. Sept 12 No rain to speak of. Picked up trap. 1 definite Perogyan maniculates and 2 funny - looking things, much smaller with somewhat different tails. Put up all 3. I hunted the woods along the ridge and got
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8.6. Sunday 1952 Journal 53 Sept 13 [illegible] Bernardo, spooft, Socorro Co, New Mexico getting much. A Williamson Sapsander, a Ruby Crowned Kinglet and a chickadee. I saw two Red-Tailed Hawks flying along the ridge to the working camp. It was a windy day and there must have been a good up-draft for them to ride: Saw several Hellai [illegible] say on the slope of the ridge. This is the dry south facing slope which is full of piñons and juniper as well as over "Upper Sonoran" species. I saw a crevice in the rock from which was growing a young yellow pine and a cactus. Also just at an area covered with juniper, pino, yellow pine, with a single Engelmann Spruce growing in its midst. Tonight we had a terrific thundertorm. Rain, hail, wind and lightning. Fortunately this beat up old tent held together. Sept 13 Nothing in traps which were almost all sprung by hail. We broke camp and headed into Albugrore. Bonell was unable to accompany us, but he left instructions on how to get to his duck hunting lodge where the famous "Lower Sonoran" Zapus was taken. We found the spot, just south of the little town of Bernardo which is 20 miles or so North of Socorro. This little settlement is called San Francisco, but it is not on the map. We set out all the traps we had & some that Bonell had in the cabin. This is along on
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S. O. Jansky 1952 Journal 54 Sept 13 Lm S Bernardo, 5,000ft, Socorro, New Mexico migration canal, an artificial marsh mostly dry now, with pools here and there and some knee deep grass growing around. Also a good many Mesquite bushes hither and yon. Some of the thicket are pretty thick. All around in sand and sage - brush. A more unlikely spot Sept. for Zapus would be hard to imagine. Aug 14. Picked up traps. 2 Peromyscus leucopus. No- ore got any Zapus. This marshy spot is literally covered with coon tracks. I went out shooting in the morning and mesquite thickets to the north. I found the duck blind where Bob caught his Zapus. Got a Dickcissel, in the mash grass here + a Brewer's sparrow - 4 whirle there are many. There are also a great many Jark Spenows in the grass which I was unable to collect. Bower got are. I got a Yellow throt in the thick Mesquite and a young Red- Winged Blackbird as well. Great Blue Herons are prevalent and American Egrets are also common. I have also seen killdeer and yellow-leg Barn Swallows are swooping over the marsh. Bower and I went out tonight and picked up a great many frog and toads. We did this last night too, I forgot to mention it. I re-set my trap + 10 live traps when wee around here. I hope we get something!
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4. Landry, S.O. October 19, 1952 - November 30, 1953 Local and Miscellaneous Catalogue nos. 293-318
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S.O. Landry 1952 Catalogue Oct 19 5 mi W Inverness, Marin Co., California + part skeleton 293 Aplodontia rufa ♂ 348-27-63-20 wt. [illegible] gms. (Museum of Vent 2001.) Lake Anza, Wildcat Canyon, Contra Costa Co. calif Dec 30. 294 ♂ juv. Procyon lotor. 557-192-95-50 wt. 1405 gms.
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S.O. Landry 1953 Jan 4 Catalogue Haste St. (Annothead School) Berkeley, Alameda Co., California (H.B. Landry) (skull bloody) 295 Dendroica auduboni ad.Wt. 12.2 gms (picked up on street) (maxilla fractured) Jan 18 Vicinity of Seattle, King Co., Washington, (coll. by V.Schelten) 296 Apodontia ♂♂ ♀ 324-23-54-19. May 3 2½ mi NW Inverness, Marin Co., California 297 ♀ 110-49-13-10 5½ W Inverness, Marin Co., California. 298 ♀ 118-52-14-8 2½ mi: NW Inverness, Marin Co., California 299 ♀(lactating) 109-46-13-9 Aug 19 2 mi NE Wellesley, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts 300 Tamiasciurus hudsonicus picked up sex? (Mrs. R.C.Bacon) Sept 12 Lake Mary, ½ mi S Donner Summit, Placer Co., California 301 Eutamias (amoenus)? ♂ 197-83-33-22 No wt. 302 " " ♀ 195-82-30-17 " Sept 13, 303 Microtus montanus ♀ 121-30-20-13 No wt. 304 " longicaudus ♀ 167-55-22-19 No wt. Oct 2 Wellesley Hills, 2½ mi NE Wellesley, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts 305 Tamias striatus ♀ 227-89-33-19 wt. 71 gms Oct 10, Lake Mary, ½ mi S Donner Summit, Placer Co., Calif. 306 Microtus montanus ♀ 166-43-20-13 wt. 43 gms. Oct 30 Wellesley Hills 2½ mi NE Wellesley, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts = skeleton 307 Peromyscus leucopus ♂ 164-80-19-14 Wt 16.3 gms. skull. 308 Epidesicus fuscus ? 6500 ft. Sage Hen Creek 3 mi NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif Nov 29, 309 Sorex vagrans ♀, 108-45-14-7 310 Thomomys monticola ♀ 192-59-25-7 (abscess rt. side of rostrum)
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S.O. Sunday 1953 Catalogue Nov 29. Sage Hen Creek, 6500' 3 mi NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co, California 311 Thomomys monticola ♀ 187-62-24-8 wt. 75gms 312 Microtus montanus ♀ 173-49-23-14 wt. 43 gms. 313 Peromyscus montanus ♀ 141-38-19-14. 26gms 314 Peromyscus maniculatus ♀ 149-66-20-19 wt. 17gms. 315 Sitta canadensis ♀ ad. wt. 10.2 gms. 316 Myadestes townsendio? ad. Wt. 36.6gms. (chotingonai) 317 Corthia familiaris ? ad. wt. 8.7gms. Nov.30 318 Sorex trowbridgi ♂ 111-41-12-8 wt 4.3 gms
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