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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