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O. Mermuler
1943
Leithrodontomys
May 24, West Side Arroyo Seco, 500 ft., 4 mi.'S Soledad, Monterey Co., Calif.
One lactating ♀ caught in live trap.
May 25, Galician Range, 1500 ft., 5½ mi. ENE Soledad, Monterey Co., Calif.
One ♂ caught in grass and tall grey plant.
May 26, Two ♂'s and one ♀ were caught last night. Two
were caught in grass near Bluebush and
Artemesia. One was caught along the stream
under willows.
May 27, 6 were caught in live traps. 2 ♀ + 4 ♂. One female
had 3, 4 mm embryo. They were caught in:
pathway under Adenostoma, Open run in grass,
Calicut run in Grass, Mound under Blue Bush in
Grass, run under Artemesia, and a mound in
gross.
May 29, One ♂ was caught in a snap trap set in
a microtus run.
May 30, The Halls brought us a mother and 4 young
in their nest which they found under hay.
Their eyes were still closed. I caught 2 ♂'s in
Microtus runs in snap traps.
May 31, I caught 5 in live traps set in field on a
hillside facing west. There was an abundance
of grass and Blue bush.
June 1, Metz, 250 ft., Monterey Co., Calif.
I caught 1 in a live trap set along
the overflow bank of the Salinas river.
Willows + Starthistle are abundant here.