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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