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age - 1933
S.side Thompson Canyon 3000', Walker Basin,
Kern Co., Cal.: Oct. '16, 1933.
219 Perognathus ♂ wt: 30 210-120-27-15
220 Peromyscus crinitus boylei ♂ wt: 25 185-100-22-20
221 Microtus ♀ wt: 79 195-58-23-17
222 Pipistrellos ♂ wt: 3.5 60-20-3-10
223 Eutamias ♂ & ♀ wt: 77 250-115-35-20
224 Neotoma fuscipes ♂ wt: 292 375-175-37-30
225 Sciurus griseus ♀ wt: 816 575-280-48-39
Specimens "219, 220, 221, & 224" were
trapped by R.M. Gilmore.
My own traps produced practically
nothing today. I did catch a perognathus
in a steel trap. I caught a ground squirrel
in a steel trap this afternoon.
I shot a young male grey squirrel
this morning. And, while skinning the
female this afternoon that I got last
night I discovered it was, or is, the same
one which I shot several days ago. I found
numbers of no."12" shot under its skin. Also,
I shot a chipmunk this morning. I forgot to
mention that I have now collected every
grey squirrel I have seen.
There seems to be a shortage of mammals
here, numbers of individuals, that is. The
rodents are quite well represented as to genera
and species, but there seems to be but a few of
each kind.
The bats didn't come out tonight. I