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Palmer
1935
May 13 cont'd.
January
4 Dipodomys lemmanni. Tracks were very thick, and all of the traps were sprung.
Parker Creek, 2750 ft., 3 mi. NW Edgewood, Siskiyou Co., Calif. In the 3 gopher sets caught one & Thomomys bottae(?). Saw several new birds here: Bullock Oriole, common in the cottonwoods; Western Kingbird, too seen in the cottonwoods; Song Sparrow, The first and only one seen or heard so far was shot from a willow in an island in the creek. The fact that there were cat-tails in the stream may account for its presence there and not at other places farther up the creek. Also saw a Lepus Californicus on a low hill in Artemisia.
We drove back and stopped at The Mill's Ranch which is at: Shasta River, 2850 ft., 2 mi. N Edgewood, Siskiyou Co., Calif. Here I made 5 gopher sets in an alfalfa patch. I talked with the Mills boy (about 18 yrs old). He says he has trapped for furs around the ranch and caught a Striped Skunk, Spotted Skunk and "lots of minks". He had never heard of any Racoon along the river. He had never heard of Ring-tailed Cats. The reports that they get lots of moles around the yard. We saw remains of one.