Field notes, v1467
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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