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12 mi. S Canyon City, 5500 ft., Grant Co., Oregon
June 25, 1932
June 15th: Chipping Sparrows, 6+, were seen during the morning.
Several Calospermophilus and one Eutamias were seen up on the slopes among the Yellow Pines on the ground where there were fallen logs and some brush. Miller came back with a squirrel of doubtful species, probably Citellus Columbianus. He shot it in a small clearing among the Aspens where he said there was a colony of them. The large mounds outside the burrow reminded him of a California Ground Squirrel.
This evening I shot another Gunnison Rabbit between the two places where I took them this A.M. Another one was seen to run into a Saddle Huckle just after yards up from when I shot this one. They could be heard running over fallen wood & sticks.
The one which was shot was eating the same plant that was previously noted as a food, also lupine.
I placed out 40 traps, 7 of them being rat traps on top of Fir stumps, the others being mouse traps which were placed in grassy clearings among the Firs & in the Hucklebs themselves. The former were set for Flying Squirrels chiefly, and the latter for Batotmgs.
A number of bats were seen flying among the Firs & Aspens on the canyon floor just before dark, but they were in a difficult place to shoot. Now were seen out in the more open Yellow Pine. Meller called a ? Horned Owlleep to us at 8:30 p.m. & shot it.