Field notes, v1467
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ye - 1933. French Gulch, Piute Mts., Oct. 25, 1933. Trap record: My steel traps were un- touched. I caught one pack rat in a trap in which I had already caught two chipmunks. I caught two microtus, one a juvenile. I caught one boyleii (?) and one maniculatus. 274 Eutamias ♂ wt: 62.5 240-110-33-17 275 Eutamias ♂ wt: 65 236-107-36-19 276 Microtus ♂ wt: 66 180-62-25-16 277 Microtus ♂ wt: 38 157-57-23-18 278 Microtus ♀ wt: 35 150-47-21-15 279 Neotoma fuscipes ♂ wt: 290 373-163-38-30 280 Peromyscus boylei ♂ wt: 23 190-102-22-19 Coming back from my steel traps this morning I shot a junco and two slender-billed nuthatches. I have found very good, fresh skunk tracks up the canyon away and I have added a couple of more steel traps to include that territory. There seem to be lots of birds and mammals here, but they are very hard to get. For instance, the nuthatches work so high in the pines that they are out of range. The mammals are similarly hard to get. The pack rats seem to be scarce. Yet there are about 10 fresh nests among the willows. So fresh that