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Pearson
1978
about 5:30 Anita put 40 museum spears around the edge
of a grassy campground meadow with dense rose and
deberry thickets. I put about 25 in a forest of
Potagua (myceugenia xiseca) with a few cwayance,
spurred with campground refuse.
some traps in a
small almost-mucky sedgey meadow. About 10 feet up
in several trees are plastic bags stuck in the branches. These
must indicate the level of the lake after last winter's floods.
This would be at least [illegible], maybe 20 feet above the present
level of the lake. The water was 2 feet deep in the living
room of the Park Guard's house, must have worked
harder with the mouse (populations when our
traps were out,
The old Coder talking about the 1938 floods said the
mice had white patches. These patches are common in
Dryzomyz.
Evening was calm and mild. Anita's traps should
be going off at bat-flying time; by 9:30 she had 4 mice
(Coryz and abdon divoens), bats flying, Anita put up
a net in camp and we watched the late crawling of,
April 25
night partly clear, mostly calm, full moon. mosquitoes.
bats flew all night until dawn 8 a.m. Temp at 8 am
7 1/2°. My traps held 5 Coryz and 2 abdon, not much in the woods.
One of the abdon's in the sedge meadow looks taumier rustian.
Anita, including last night's, had 6 abdon divoens and 22
Dryzomyz, none with white spots. Only one male in breeding
condition, no preg. females, several pups. The abdon's not
breeding either. Most of the abdon's with blackberry in the