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O.P. PEARSON
1949
8
Aug 22
in broken down road. Sound of slot flanked corey of just out
of young Doug fir and one Peromyscus at my feet.
One more Clothronongs, 5 Peromyscus, and 1 young Meotus
in traps. Left after breakfast for the big prairie around
Schoolhouse Peak. Set 49 oatmeal-baited Shermana and
6 Museum Specials mostly along a wet sedge seep but
a few out in grass, the edge about 100 yds from
a torqne of oaks in a ravine. Watched ground
squirrels and Murray I found 2 Myotis erebus in
rock crevices. Put out two gopher traps around camp
and caught one before supper.
Early supper and drove with Murray + Cogswell
to Schoolhouse Peak. Just before dark set about 30
oatmeal-baited Museum Specials in moist woods
on north slope near cattle gap east of the five
stages. Woods in Doug. fir, madrone, and tan oak,
with thick duff, rotten logs, etc. Many tunnels
etc. Most sets were "Blarina" sets at natural holes
or holes poked into tunnels.
Sat by water trough until dark but saw only
one bat didn't drink. Lights of Euscevaria ble.
Aug 23
Trip line in sedge seep in prairie caught 2 Sorex vagrans,
1 Mictus californicus, and 6 Peromyscus. Nothing except
1 Peromyscus out in grassy prairie. The line in woods
on north slope caught 4 Peromyscus, 1 Clothronong,
crossed 1 Metopus fusipes, and 1 Sorex trowbridgii. Put about
20 more museum specials in this line. The remains
of the Clothronongs line at French Camp caught nothing