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Smiley
1936
Microdipodops sp. (Cont.)
3 mi. N Vya, 5900 ft., Washoe Co., Nev.
July 20 Two specimens. Terrain flat;
wind-blowable sand brown, drifted
under bushes (Artemesia). Latter, up
to five feet in height. Dunes under
bushes ± one foot in depth.
July 21 ½ mi. NE Painted Point, 5800 ft., Washoe Co., Nev.
10 caught in area of light tan wind-blowable
Sand mottled over area of hard-packed
silt.
3 mi. E Painted Point, 5800 ft., Washoe Co., Nev.
6 caught. Artemesia on coarse, brown
sand, not wind-blowable. Terrain flat.
July 25 9½ mi. N Sulphur, 4050 ft., Humboldt Co., Nev.
4 caught on dune area of semi-wind-
blowable sand – dunes inconspicuous
up to two feet high. * Sand
brownish with vari. colored pebbles
less than 2 mm. in diameter scattered
over surface.
1½ mi. N Sulphur, 4050 ft., Humboldt Co., Nev.
7 caught on dune structure 15'x100'x600'
of light tan windblowable sand
adjacent to similar dunes (massive)
Plants: Sarcobatus, Artemesia.