Field notes, v503
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Lee Arnold 1937 near Smith Creek Cave, 5800ft; Thl Morieh White Pine Co., Nevada Itinerary June 7 Cnemidophorus. June 8 Last night Johnson, Fitch and myself drove east of camp to set out traps. I set out my line of 42 museum traps and 25 catchalives 3 miles east of camp on approximately the Nevada-Utah border. All of the traps were set among low brush ranging up to 1 foot in height. The soil was hard with patches of dust. There was a thin layer of small rocks over the ground which formed a rough surface. While setting traps I noted numerous badger holes. These were for the most part along the edges of washes where they could dig without going vertically. I noted a pair of Ravens and two Western Nighthawks while setting traps. This morning I did not have any mice in my catchalive traps. In the others there were: 4 Dipodomys (3♀+1♂) 1 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ 1 Onychomys leucogaster Imm. ♂. This region did not have as much sign of animals as those trapped in on previous nights. While hunting in the creek bottom near my trap line I shot 3 Cnemodophorus. One