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Smiley
1936
July 26 In area (1) Caught 1 Dipodomys ordii
1 Perognathus longimembris. Area (2), caught
1 Dipodomys ordii, 2 Perognathus longimembris,
2 Peromyscus maniculatus, 3 Microdipodops sp.
Set 75 mouse traps south of Rabbit Hole
Spring: 8 mi. S Sulphur, 4300 ft, Pershing Co, Nev.
On 10° hillside and on ¼-mi- wide,
bottom of wash. Two soil types
cream colored
(1) light tan silt took print of hobnails
Sarcobatus major vegetation
plainly; 45 traps here and extending
up hillside on hard ground. (2) wind-
blowable, light tan sand in small
dunes under bushes (Sarcobatus); 30 traps
set here.
July 27 Combined catch of above-described,
(two) areas: 9 Dipodomys merriami,
5 D. microps, 4 P. maniculatus,
2 Perognathus longimembris,
1 Neotoma lepida. Moved camp
to area south of Vernon. Set 62
mouse traps in area: 3 mi. SW Vernon,
4300 ft, Pershing Co, Nev. 10 traps at
semi-wind-blowable sand-light tan.
52 traps in area with gradient of
rocks small and few to large and many.
Terrain flattish, progressively more
of an east-facing slope (to 3°) as