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Kaye - 1933.
9 mi. S., 6 mi. W., Chico, 100 ft., Butte Co., Calif.
Sept. 18, 1933.
where he got the deer yesterday. I saw
a doe only, and missed a long difficult
shot at it. Ward shot a doe, which
we skinned today.
This afternoon we went out to
pick up the steel traps which I set out
Saturday night. Of the three traps
which I set, one was not touched,
the second was springing, and the third
had a buzzard in it.
While I was looking at these
traps, it occurred to me to look
again in the squirrel hole from
which I had taken the rattlesnake
the other night. I had heard that
rattlesnakes are often found where
others were recently killed. I
wished to see if I could substantiate
this theory. I did. I found an
even larger one in the exact
spot from which I had taken
the first one. I'm going back again
to see if I can find another, a
third one. There is apparently not
a nest of them because both of them
backed as far down the hole as they
could, which was only 3 feet, and in
either case could I detect more