Field notes, v1458
Page 149
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Lepus townsendii July 3 E. end Miller's Island, 200 ft., Klickitat Co., Wash. White-tailed jack rabbits are fairly abundant on the island. In the short time I was there I saw three and Tevis saw another. The abundance of their droppings also indicates that they are fairly numerous. Two, one of which was collected, were flushed from under small projecting ledges of basalt. The other was found among small sagebrush at the base of a sand dune. The rabbits have well formed trails among the sagebrush and over the dunes. There is very little green feed at this time of year except along the R. bank where a few green weeds and short grass are to be found. Tracks, however, do not indicate that the rabbits feed along the bank particularly. A few coyote tracks were seen and the remains of one rabbit indicating how the rabbit population was kept in check. Tevis, however, found a red-tailed hawk eating a rabbit and I saw another red-tailed hawk which acted as if it had a nest along the high basalt cliffs near the central part of the island.