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Smiley
1936
July 9 Took in traps set last evening at: Smoke Creek,
3900 ft, 9 mi. E Calif. Line, Washoe Co., Nev.
Caught: 10 Peromyscus maniculatus, 2 Neotoma cinerea
Afternoon: Hall, Russell, Engler and I drove to
Buffalo Meadow; reconnaissance in meadow for
sign of Thomomys. None found. Feces of
antelope in meadow. Drove back toward camp
on Smoke Creek to a point: 17 mi. W Deephole,
4800 ft, Washoe Co., Nev. Set out fifty mouse
traps and one rat trap. Letter in rocky outcrop
with stale sign of wood rat. Mouse traps set
under junipers which grew [about] 40 feet apart
in a flat-V-shaped, dry, water course. Under
trees, dead limbs and thick mats of juniper
needles. Angular lava rocks up to size of
man's head embedded in grass-covered soil.
crest of mountain 1000 ft. above.
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