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Smiley
1936
July 29 Lovelock and Rye Patch to El Dorado
(cont.) Canyon, 6000 ft. Humboldt Range, Pershing Co., Nev.
Set 40 mouse traps 40 paces apart
up hillside with Artemesia 1 to 3 ft. high,
Juniperus mottled in patches over
hillside. Rock and gravelly soil.
wouldn't take print of hobnails
readily.
July 30 Caught: 1 Peromyscus crinitus, 12 P.
moniculatus, 4 Perognathus parvus.
Shot Say Phoebe in flight over
hillside. Shot 1 sceloperus near
stream under aspers, cornus
and Rosa. Shot Western robin on
talus slope near Sagebrush.
40 traps left on slope for chipmunks;
None caught.
July 31 During night Caught 2 Perognathus parvus,
2 Reithrodonomys megalotus, 8 Peromyscus
moniculatus, 41 Peromyscus truei truei.
Set 26 mouse traps in semi-meadow
of Sagebrush x grasses at: El Dorado Canyon
8000 ft. Humboldt Range, Pershing Co., Nev.
Meadow with 5° slope to west and
constituting the floor of valley between
two shoulders of mountain. Meadow 300ft.
wide. Set 3 rat traps in deserted house nearby.