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Palmer
1934
Mar 16
caught.
2.
Perognathus c. Californicus
Took one ♀ (# 19) in trap set in the
mouth of a rather neat looking
burrow in open ground between
cumps of Artemesia. The burrow
was about 2" in diameter. Mouse
contained no embryos. Oat bait.
Took one ♂ (# 18) in a trap set
on gravelly, open ground under
Artemesia on west facing part of
slope. Check pouches contained several
bits of the oat bait indicating that
The trap didn't go off immediately.
Testes enlarged.
Mar 25
900 ft., 1/4 mi. E.N.E. of Botanical Garden,
Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
♂ 23 Taken in trap set on bare ground
underneath a bush lupine. The
torn and scattered pods of this plant
indicated that some small animals
had been feeding here but check
pouches of this specimen were empty. A
Moderately sloping hillside with
some grass and rushes. Hillside
dotted with Artemesia, Poison Oak,
and bush lupine.
The specimen had lost the tip
end of his tail at some previous
time and it was all healed up but
with a lump at the end.