Field notes, v1703
Page 171
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Feb 15 (cont.) We turned east at this junction toward the Little Panosha Creek, just as the road enters the hills along the Little Panosha Creek at point mi N, mi E of Mercy Hot Springs we have stopped. Here a flat area of 3 or 4 acres between the hills and the actual valley of the stream we found more burrows of O. ingens. We set more traps, I had 17 rat traps and Cook 4 live traps. The soil here was coarser than at the other place we found O. ingens burrows & numerous small rocks and pebbles. Cittella beckeyi also inhabited this flat. Several Hyla regilla were seen in burrows. At about 5:45 we continued on road up along the Little Panosha Creek. Stopped at point 5.8 mi N, 3.7 mi E of Mercy Hot Springs to see the skull of Genus from which Bill McFar had collected the skull two weeks ago. It was a ?. The collection of "predators" on the fence was heavy at the fence which included several kit foxes and a bobcat now also had a fairly fresh Coyote. I took it skull see O. (Ost, # 362) We continued past Mercy Hot Springs, just beyond which the fence stopped and we took a side road for a quarter of a mile along a dry stream. Here we camped for the night. I set out about 50 museum special, Cooke about 20. After supper we drove back toward the valley. At one spot along the road in a marshy area we heard a chorus of Hyla. Several other voices were heard which Cook identified as Toads. Numerous Opos were seen along the road. A night hawk flew away from our camp at our return. A barn owl was heard overhead. Feb 16 I checked my traps at our camp and had one Dipodomys dermanni, Cook had a single White-Crowned Sparrow. The traps at the foot of the creek North of the valley had two Dipodomys ingens. En route there we checked two old wooden bridges and an old shack along the road for rats but without success.