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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