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Sciurus douglasii
July 4, 2pm E Pipe Flat Tulare Co. Calif.
Shut two of these animals
this afternoon.
Faveral area - Sierra Nevada
life-zone - Transition.
Habitat - Lower coniferous
forest, excluding the sabin
pine belt. One individual
was shut out of a sugar
pine (20 ft up). The other
was shot along the littred
stream where pine and
cedar had grown in thicks
and close to the ground.
I saw another individual
feeding on aphids or other
insects which that are
to be found in numbers
on the young tips of the
pine.
July 6. Parker Meadow, 6400 ft. Tulare Co. Calif.
Shut two individuals with
attending traps.
Faveral area - Sierra Nevada.
life-zone - Canadian.
Habitat - S't coniferous forest of
mixed size and composition.
Such a forest produces food in
the form of nut in the greatest
number over the greatest period of
time. Two or individual builds
on desirable, such being need