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Itinerary
Fonglumet
1934
July 25
1 mi N Burbank, 350 ft. Walla Walla Co. Wash.
On the evening of the 24th Claitin,
Tevis and I rode to the following
locality to set traps:
4 mi. NNW Richland, 450 ft., Benton Co., Wash.
50 mouse traps were set 5-10 yd.
apart in a sagebrush flat and 20
mouse traps were set along an
irrigation canal. The catch was.
Peromyscus parvus 3 or 4?
All were caught on the sagebrush
flat.
One set of gopher traps was made
at:
2 mi. NW Richland, 400 ft., Benton Co., Wash.
1 ? Thomomys talpoides was caught
in an alfalfa field.
On the way back to camp I
saw one Blue-winged teal, one
eastern kingbird, and one
burrowing owl carrying a snake.
Other birds seen about camp
include: Forster's tern, Caspian tern,
magpie, crow, raven, mallard & with 16
young, greater yellow-legs, spotted sand-
piper, seagull sp?, Canada goose, robin,
meadow lark, mourning dove, Brewer blackbird,
redwing blackbird, bobwhite quail, cliff