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Smiley
1936
July 27 mountains were approached, and
(cont. progressively more rocky. Traps mostly
set along the rims of a 18-foot-deep
"wash" 50 ft. from rim to rim with
a 3-ft.-wide, dry stream bed below.
Boulders, 2 to 6 ft. in diameter
abundant, averaging ten feet apart;
smaller, angular rocks left only
30% of soil exposed- grasses,
Artemesia and Sarcobatus (rare).
July 28 In the sandy area caught 1
Dipodomys microps. In area
progressively more rocky caught:
2 D. microps, 5 D.. merriami,
8 Perognathus formosus, 1 Microdipodops
sp., 1 Perognathus longimembris,
1 Peromyscus maniculatus. Moved
camp via Lovelock to Adobe Flat:
21 mi. W + 2mi. N Lovelock, 4000 ft., Pershing Co., Nev.
Set 60 mouse traps + 2 rat traps
in light gray, wind-blowable sand,
in dunes up to 15 feet high, not
conspicuously rolling.
July 29 Caught 2 Dipodomys deserti,
1 D. ordii columbianus, 6 D. microps,
2 D. merriami, 1 Reithrodonomys megalotus
4 Microdipodops. Moved camp via