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Transcription
A.C.Bicour
1957
Microtus longicaudus
Butt Creek Pass Cheese, Plumas Co, Calif.
4300ft.
Sept. 3-5 Seven taken in wet meadow with
1 to 2½ ft. high sage + live + service-cut
willow bushes. 2 M. montanus also taken
in meadow apparently in drier spots but
maybe not sure montanus kept to this
drier ground, M. montanus from this locn.
is browner on back with a shorter tail
which compare to longicaudus from
here. Neither species taken on drier hill
slopes bordering meadow. Young + adults
of longicaudus — the more common species —
taken within meadow.