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A.C. ZIEBKER
1957
Journal
Butte Creek, 8 mi S Chico, Plumas Co., Cal.
4300 ft.
Sept. 4 (am) 2 baby vagrans, 3 Microtus + 2 Peromyscus,
Scots Roll and traps at 7:45 am. Nothing in
Mareses or Schuyler's; Peromyscus in live
traps. 1 Microtus in open meadow + 3
Scot's Vagrants in traps in windows & Scott.
Roll+ picked up all traps between noon & 3:00 pm. Got
only a Citellus lateralis in Schuyler's & finally a
Cutting's species in a live trap (near cave).
Pack'd left after putting up specimens at 6:00 am.
Drove to Huggins Lake Co., Cal + looked
into 2 mine tunnels just outside of town.
While Dr. Benson + others has banding birds
10 years or so ago. Saw a large brown
Common Crow with light specks all over
but could not catch it as it went into
hole in cave floor. Nest of Peromyscus &
Myotis Thysanodes + saw another Myotis sp.
with a band on wing. Slept about 3:00 am
in hills few miles from Lakeport.
Menlo Co.
Harlands Experimental Station, Lkate Co., California
Sept. 6 Got up at 8:30 am & drove to station
where Char. Therese who had falcon broods
job of getting mice for summer showed us around. Saw many F + fawn deer
but no bucks. Saw no chipmunks but a
few Citellus bichenomy in drain pipes.