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Smiley
1936
Peromyscus crinitus
July 5 W side Sand Pass, 1390 ft., Washoe Co., Nev.
One young one, gray pelage, in rock outcrop near
brow of hill. Rocks fissured and fractured with much
stale sign of wood rat. Rocks calcareous (?)
mottled with several lichens of different colors.
Rock outcrop faces huge dry lake. Silt from lake
had blown over slope below outcrop— sagebrush
up to six feet in height there.
July 6 2½ mi. E Flanigan, 4250 ft., Washoe Co., Nev.
Two taken on SE-facing slope with
reddish rock outcrops averaging 6 feet high X
10 feet long. Boulders two—three feet in
diameter were few and placed singly or
in groups of two to three. Schistose bits
of this reddish rock were embedded in
hard, gravelly sand. Dry grass sparse.
Artemesia bushes 20—30 feet apart.
July 7 40°28' N 6mi. E Calif. Line, 4000 ft., Washoe Co., Nev.
Six caught in area with embedded reddish
rocks on 30°-45° E-and N-facing slopes.
Igneous rock outcrops with covering of
calcareous hot-spring deposit. Dry grass
hard-packed
over surface of sand, between embedded
rocks.