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Kaye - 1933.
9 mi. S, 6 mi. W, Chico, 100 ft., Butte Co., Calif.
Sept. 24, 1933.
We ate breakfast today! The first time since we've been here. We didn't go deer hunting. During the morning we cleaned up all the left over work on the deer and got ready to do some trapping in the afternoon.
I took the Red and went to the south end of the ranch. I revisited the hole from which I got the first two rattlesnakes, but failed to get a third. I set a line of traps at the extreme end of Eddy Lake - 15 mouse traps and five steel traps. This was in exactly the same place at which I caught the microtus about a week ago. I also set a line of mouse traps in the place where we had been doing our deer hunting. In both places the habitat was a wild grape draw. The latter, had no water near, while 100 ft. from where I set my traps at Eddy there was water; so I expect different genera from the two places, though the vegetation is in both cases the same.
Bob took the Dodge and set out two lines of traps, one at the lower end of Perkins Lake, and the other in