Field notes, v1512
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Palmer 1934 Feb. 24. General Account. Dwight Way Hill, 650 ft., Berkeley, Alameda Co., California. Set four mouse traps in Microtus runways in Puccinellia and Hordeum grasses arounds base of Bachamus brush. West facing slope. Here took one immature & Microtus c. californicus (No skin) and one & Reithrodonomys megalotis longicaudus F.G.P. 10. Both caught in runway worn bare by much use. Traps in new grassy bottomed runway took nothing. Hamilton Gulch, 650 ft., Berkeley, Alameda Co., California Set eight mouse traps in brush along the road. West and north facing slopes. Some in hard chaparral where I took one & Peromyscus Truei gilberti and one immature Peromyscus probably P. c. californicus. In soft chaparral took one & (#9) of Peromyscus c. californicus and Two Peromyscus Truei gilberti -- one & (#8) and one &. All traps oat + raisen bait. Also set two rat traps by woodrat nest. Oat bait taken but did not catch anything