Field notes, v1516
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picked out 10 to operate on, and in 6 of those we measured the bump in the uterus and sewed them up and released them. The other 4 we left - 2 were not pregnant, 1 was resorbing, & the last had a broken wing. Drove back to Petaluma for dinner & checked our traps - one Sore & a mus in mine. In the morning my traps held 3 more Sore & 3 more mus. No Microtus in either OP's or my line! Home by 10AM. June 1, 1950 Manhattan Miss, Napa Co., Caly Left Berkeley with Bernie Kinsey about 8:30 this evening and arrived at Knoxville about 11 PM. Along the way we saw lots of night life - one Dipodomys scampered across the road in front of us, 2 mice, lots of deer, several rabbits, plus cats, etc. In the Knoxville tunnel was one night-roosting Conyothemis banded. We killed him immediately & put[illegible] his stomach contents in alcohol. June 2, 1950 In the morning we started searching all the Manhattan tunnels for the large nursery colony here a few weeks ago. In the Abyss cave where the colony had been were one awake O' Cony, one torpid ?. Big pile of grains on floor of the cave, but no further bit seen. In another cave near the 20-house hill we picked up another single torpid female Cony. Notti; in OP tunnel, one awake O' Cony in Mary's tunnel on the eastern hill of Manhattan Miss, & another torpid O' in Catacombs tunnel. None in Mangante hill or any of the other tunnels. He looked in