Field notes, v1713
Page 279
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Notes on Woodchuck. March 27. 1929. 5:8 p.m. bright sunny day, A single specimen was noted on rocky cliffs near Portneuf Siding. This was first specimen I had seen this season; not collected. April 13: 1929. Bright clear day. 9:30 - 11:30 A.M. I took a party of four to the same vicinity near Portneuf Siding to collect Woodchucks; Three were shot with shot-guns; nine escaped; total observed 12. in three fourths of a mile of new rocky hill side; some small bluffs. These 3 were all males; (cat. Nos. 50; 51; 52; Stomach contents showed large quantities of green grass hulls; no seed hulls. All specimens observed were always quite near their burrows in rock slides or