Field notes, v1502
Page 671
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Murray 1949 26 Journal Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. these and collected 1. Caught a Euneces on one large outcropping and saw another. Culeus were quite numerous. Pulled off a piece of exfoliating rock from an outcrop and found a Myotis evotis in the narrow crack beneath it. Somewhere on almost every rock outcrop there was a pile of disintegrated scat, a few pieces still holding shape which was almost surely bear. Most were composed entirely of grasshopper parts, a few with some berry seeds also. These were 100 to 200 yds from forested areas. Grasshoppers were exceedingly thick in the grassy field. Shot a bluebird, one of several fence posts. Shifted most of my traps on the hill across from camp, running through a patch of Ceanothus cuneatus on a very dry and otherwise bare slope. Most of them were in fir forest on top of the ridge and just slightly onto the north facing slope, the ground was almost bare here except for a good layer of needles, and scattered moss covered rocks. On the way down picked up a Gennhonotus in an open bracken fern and grass covered area. By then the sun had gone behind the ridge. Left the other 15 traps in place.