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E.V. Miller
1940
General Account
Titmouse. In the late afternoon I set out 50 more
M. specials for mice, up on a rocky, brush and cactus
covered slope. I collected a Dark Bunting, a Linnnet
and a lizard (Holbrookia?) while setting the traps. Later
I set 10 Schuyler no 1 traps in a nearby field for Cotton
Rats. These were set in a runway under some weeds
at the edge of a wheat field. There was no signs (grass
cuttings) here, however. In the evening I shot 4 bats
and found 2 of them - both Tadarida mexicana, 1 ♂, 1 ♀.
March 31 Took 7 Peromyscus (boykii?) in mouse traps, 4 ♂, 3 ♀.
Took 1 ♂ Sigmodon in a net trap. During the day
shot a ♀ Calliope(?) Hummingbird at camp. In the
afternoon Benson, Margo, and I went over to the E side
of the canyon to inspect a 'bat' cave. The natives spoke
of there being a 'few' bats here. The cave was about
15 ft. high and 50 ft. long and had been used as a goat
pen. We found no bats. There is another cave farther
away, which is supposed to have more bats. We expect
to visit it tomorrow. In the evening I went hunting
and collected a Sealed Quail ♀ and a Cottontail (⚬?).
On the way to the cave I took a Cremidophorus seplineatus.
In the evening I shot a ♂ Pipistrellus sp?
April 1 Yesterday Benson made known his desire to have some
Cittellus variegatus to some natives, and gave two ♀
persons some shells to get squirrels with. The result
was that about 21 squirrels were brought in not
only by the persons Benson had told but by several